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Lat. Use; practice. Praxis judionm est interpres legnnt. Hob. 96. The practice of the judges is the interpreter of the laws. … [Read more...] about PRAXIS

Having the nature of prayer, request, or entreaty; conveying or embodying a recommendation or advice or the expression of a wish, but not a positive command or direction. Precatory trust. A trust created by certain words, which are more like words of entreaty and permission than of command or ceiv tainty. Examples of such words, which the courts have held sufficient to … [Read more...] about PRECATORY

To make a formal request of the court, usually to request a judgment on a party's behalf. … [Read more...] about PRAY

Expressions in a will praying or requesting that a thing shall be done. 2. Although recommendatory words used by a testator, of themselves, seem to leave the devisee to act as he may deem proper, giving him a discretion, as when a testator gives an estate to a devisee, and adds that he hopes, recommends, has a confidence, wish or desire that the devisee shall do certain things … [Read more...] about PRECATORY WORDS

Latin: In the civil law. That mode of acquisition whereby one becomes proprietor of a thing on the ground that he has for a long time possessed it as his own; prescription. . Dig. 41, 3. It was anciently distinguished from "usucapio," {q. v.,) but was blended with it by Justinian. Prsescriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substantiam capiens ab auctori tate legis. Co. Litt. … [Read more...] about PRAESCRIPTIO