civil law. One who has no property to be taxed; and paid a tax only on account of his children, proles; a person of mean or common extraction. The word has become Frenchified, proletaire signifying one of the common people. … [Read more...]

contracts. A written promise to pay a certain sum of money, at a future time, unconditionally. A promissory note differs from a mere acknowledgment of debt, without any promise to pay, as when the debtor gives his creditor an I O U. In its form it usually contains a promise to pay, at a time therein expressed, a sum of money to a certain person therein named, or to his order, … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

The unnecessary and superfluous statement of facts in pleading or in evidence. This will be rejected as impertinent. 7 Price, 278, note. … [Read more...]