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Another form of the name of the written instructions to the clerk of court; also spelled "precipe" (g. v.) … [Read more...] about PRECIPE

Precipitins are formations in the blood of an animal induced by repeated injections into its veins of the blood-serum of an animal of another species; and their importance in diagnosis lies in the fact that when the blood-serum of an animal so treated is mixed with that of any animal of the second species (or a closely related species) and the mixture kept at a temperature of … [Read more...] about PRECIPITIN TEST

French law. An object which is ascertained by law or the agreement of the parties, and which is first to be taken out of property held in common, by one having a right, before a partition takes place. 2. The preciput is an advantage, or a principal part to which some one is entitled, praecipium jus, which is the origin of the word preciput. By preciput is also understood the … [Read more...] about PRECIPUT

pleading. A technical allegation contained in a replication which denies or confesses and avoids the plea. It is usually in the following form; And the said A B, as to the plea of the said C D, by him secondly above pleaded, says, that he the said A B, by reason of any thing by the said C D, in that plea alleged, ought not to be barred from having and maintaining his aforesaid … [Read more...] about PRECLUDI NON

Lat. In pleading. The commencement of a replication to a plea in bar, by which the plaintiff "says that, by reason of anything in the said plea alleged, he ought not to he barred from having and maintaining his aforesaid action against him, the said defendant, because he says" etc. Steph. PI. 440. … [Read more...] about PRECLUDI NON.