A writ addressed to a sheriff to try by an Inquest In whom certain property, previous to distress, subsisted. Finch, Law, 316. Proprietates erbornm servanda) sunt. The proprieties of words [proper meanings of words] are to be preserved or adhered to. Jenk. Cent. p. 136, case 78. … [Read more...] about PROPRIETATE PROBANDA, DE.
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PROSECUTE
The act of a local prosecutor, such as a state District Attorney, Attorney General or federal United States Attorney, bringing and managing a criminal case against a defendant. To follow up; to carry on an action or other judicial proceeding; to proceed against a person criminally. … [Read more...] about PROSECUTE
PROPOSITUS
The person proposed. In making genealogical tables, the person whose relations it is desirous to find out, is called the propositus. … [Read more...] about PROPOSITUS
PROPERTY DAMAGE
The injury to personal property as a result of a tort, e.g. negligence or a willful act of destruction. … [Read more...] about PROPERTY DAMAGE
PROPOUND
An executor or other person is said to propound a will or other testamentary paper when he takes proceedings for obtaining probate in solemn form. The term is also technically used, In England, to denote the allegations in the statement of claim, in an action for probate, by which the plaintiff alleges that the testator executed the will with proper formalities, and that he was … [Read more...] about PROPOUND