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PRONOUNCEMENT OF SENTENCE

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When a court announces the sentence that will be given to a convicted defendant. … [Read more...] about PRONOUNCEMENT OF SENTENCE

PRONUNCIATION

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L. Fr. A sentence or decree. Kelham. … [Read more...] about PRONUNCIATION

PRONURUS

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Lat. In the civil law. The wife of a grandson or great-grandson. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6. … [Read more...] about PRONURUS

PROLICIDE

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In medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into feticide, or the destruction of the fetus in utero, and infanticide, or the destruction of the new-born infant. Ry. Med. Jur. 280. … [Read more...] about PROLICIDE

PROMOTE

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1. To increase rank, level or position. 2. To support, to conduct marketing activities to publicize something or someone. 3. To create a corporation and to find investment and raise capital for its ongoing activities. … [Read more...] about PROMOTE

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