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In old English law. A person who, on being indicted of treason or fel ony, and arraigned for the same, confessed the fact before plea pleaded, and appealed or accused others, his accomplices, in the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 4 Bl. Comm. 329, 330. … [Read more...] about PROVER

The word used In introducing a proviso (which see.) Ordinarily it slg nifies or expresses a condition; but this is not invariable, for, according to the context, it may import a covenant, or a limitation or qualification, or a restraint, modification, or exception to something which precedes. See Stanley v. Colt, 5 Wall. 166, 18 L. Ed. 502, Stoel v. Flanders, 68 Wis. 256, 32 N. … [Read more...] about PROVIDED

In English law. By the statute 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74, … [Read more...] about PROTECTOR OF SETTLEMENT

Sometimes this signifies the district into which a country has been divided; as, the province of Canterbury, in England the province of Languedoc, in France. Sometimes it means a dependency or colony; as, the province of New Brunswick. It is sometimes used figuratively, to signify power or authority; as, it is the province of the court to judge of the law, that of the jury to … [Read more...] about PROVINCE

(1) The period during which Oliver Cromwell ruled in England. (2) Also the office of protector. (3) The relation of the English sovereign, till the year 1864, to the Ionian Islands. Wharton. … [Read more...] about PROTECTORATE