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PROFESSION. This word has several significations. 1. It is a public declaration respecting something. Code, 10, 41, 6. 2. It i's a state, art, or ...

PROCURATORIUM. The proxy or instrument by which a proctor is constituted and appointed. PRODIGAL, civil law, persons. Prodigals were persons who, thou...

PROCREATION. The generation of children; it is an act authorized by the law of nature: one of the principal ends of marriage is the procreation of chi...

PROCHEIN. Next. This word is frequently used in composition; as, prochein amy, prochein cousin, and the like. Co. Lit. 10. PROCHEIN AMY, more correctl...

PROCESS, rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing. 2. It has been said that the word manufacture, (q. v.) in the patent laws, may, perhaps...

PROCERES. The name by which the chief magistrates in cities were formerly known. St. Armand, Hist. Eq. 88. PROCES VERBAL, French law. A true relation ...

PROBATION. The evidence which proves a thing. It is either by record, writing, the party's own oath, or the testimony of witnesses. Proof. (q. v.)...

PROBABLE. That which has the appearance of truth; that which appears to be founded in reason. PROBABLE CAUSE. When there are grounds for suspicion tha...

PRO-CURATORS, PRO-TUTORS. Persons who act as curators or tutors, without being lawfully authorized. They are, in general, liable to all the duties of ...

PRIZE, contracts. A reward which is offered to one of several persons who shall accomplish a certain condition; as, if an editor should offer a silver...