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PROPRIETARY (NOUN)

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n. A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right. The grantees of Pennsylvania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces. Webster. … [Read more...]

PROPIOS , PROPRIOS.

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In Spanish law. Certain portions of ground laid off and reserved when a town was founded in Spanish America as the unalienable property of the town, for the purpose of erecting public buildings, markets, etc., or to be used in any other way, under the direction of the municipality, for the advancement of the revenues or the prosperity of the place. 12 Pet 442> note. Thus, … [Read more...]

PROMOVENT

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A plaintiff in a suit of duplex querela, (q. v.) 2 Prob. Div. 192. … [Read more...]

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