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PROGRESSION

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That state of a business which is neither the commencement nor the end. Some act done after the matter has commenced, and before it is completed. Plowd. 343. Pronijbetur me quis faeiat in sno quod noeere possit alieno. It is forbidden for any one to do or make on his own [land] what may injure another's. 9 Coke, 59a. … [Read more...]

PROFESS

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To declare in public or openly acknowledge something. … [Read more...]

PROHIBIT

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To forbid. To make unlawful or illegal. … [Read more...]

PROFESSION

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A public declaration respecting something. Cod. 10, 41, 6. In ecclesiastieal law. The act of entering into a religious order. See 17 Vin. Abr. 545. Also a calling, vocation, known employment ; divinity, medicine, and law are called the "learned professions." … [Read more...]

PROHIBITED DEGREES

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Those degrees of relationship by consanguinity which are so close that marriage between persons related to each other in any of such degrees is forbidden by law. See State v. Guiton, 51 La. Ann. 155, 24 South. 784. PROHIBITIO DE VASTO, DIRECTA PARTI. A judicial writ which used to be addressed to a tenant, prohibiting him from waste, pending suit Reg. Jud. 21; Moore, 917. … [Read more...]

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