Where goods Intended to be exported are put direct from the station of the warehouse Into a ship alongside, the exporter fills up a document to authorize the receiving the goods on board. This document is called a "pricking note," from a practice of pricking holes in the paper corresponding with the number of packages counted into the ship. Hamel, Cust. 181. … [Read more...]

A minister of a church. A person in the second order of the ministry, aa distinguished from bishops and deacons. … [Read more...]

The legal privilege which makes the confidential communications between a priest and a penitent or confessor inadmissible as evidence in a court of law. … [Read more...]

To hinder or preclude. To stop or intercept the approach access or performance of a thing. … [Read more...]

(A) The first blush; the first view or appearance of the business; as, the holder of a bill of exchange, indorsed in blank, is prima facie its owner. 2. Prima facie evidence of a fact, is in law sufficient to establish the fact, unless rebutted. For example, when buildings are fired by sparks emitted from a locomotive engine passing along the road, it is prima facie evidence of … [Read more...]