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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

In Spanish colonial taw. An order emanating from the sovereign, and differing from a cedula only In form and In the mode of promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note. … [Read more...] about PRAGMATICA

Liable to be returned or rendered up at the mere demand or request of another; hence held or retained only on sufferance or by permission; and by an extension of meaning, doubtful, uncertain, dangerous, very liable to break, fail, or terminate. Precarious circumstances. The circumstances of an executor are precarious, within the meaning and intent of a statute, only when his … [Read more...] about PRECARIOUS

An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. Webster. See Buxton v. Railroad Co., 58 Mo. 45; Brunell v. Hopkins, 42 Iowa, 429. … [Read more...] about PRAIRIE