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PROVINCIAL COURTS

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In English law. The several arch-episcopal courts in the two ecclesiastical provinces of England. … [Read more...]

PROTESTANDO

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L. Latin: Protesting. The emphatic word formerly used in pleading by way of protestation. 3 Bl. Comm. 311. See PROTESTATION. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition pleading. According to Lord Coke, Co. Litt. 124, it is an exclusion of a conclusion. It has been more fully defined to be a saving to the party who takes it, from being concluded by any matter alleged or … [Read more...]

PROVINCIALE

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A work on ecclesiastical law, by William Lyndwode, official principal to Archbishop Chichele in the reign of Edward IV. 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 25, p. 117. … [Read more...]

PROTESTANTS

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Those who adhered to the doctrine of Luther; so called because, in 1529, they protested against a decree of the emperor Charles V. and of the diet of Spires, and declared that they appealed to a general council. The name is now applied indiscriminately to all the sects, of whatever denomination, who have seceded from the Church of Rome. Enc. Lond. See Hale v. Everett, 53 N. H. … [Read more...]

PROVINCIALIS

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Lat. In the civil law. One who has his domicile in a province. Dig. 50, 16, 190. … [Read more...]

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