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If a promise is made by one party against another that the party will not enforce part of or the whole contract against another, if the relieved party relies upon the promise, the promising party cannot bring subsequent proceedings to enforce the contract, in whole or in part. See also estoppel. … [Read more...] about PROMISSORY ESTOPPEL

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...] about PROLETARIUS

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...] about PROMISSORY NOTE

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

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