A person or party who has an interest in the subject matter of a lawsuit (affected by the outcome) and is eligible to join a lawsuit or may also be joined into a lawsuit by another current party to the lawsuit. … [Read more...]
PRONEPOS
Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandson. Inst. 3, 6, 1; Bract fol. 67. … [Read more...]
PROPERTY
Rightful dominion over external objects; ownership; the unrestricted and exclusive right to a thing; the right to dispose of the substance of a thing Ui every legal way, to possess it, to use it and to exclude every one else from interfering with it. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...]
PROMISEE
A person to whom a promise has been made. 2. In general a promisee can maintain an action on a promise made to him, but when the consideration moves not from the promisee, but some other person, the latter, and not the promisee, has a cause of action, because he is the person for whose use the contract was made. … [Read more...]
PROJECTIO
Lat. In old English law. A throwing up of earth by the sea. … [Read more...]