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PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

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The legal and ethical requirements to which a professional must adhere in the provision of services to clients. A code of professional responsibility may be established by the profession. … [Read more...]

PRODIGAL

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civil law, persons. Prodigals were persons who, though of full age, were incapable of managing their affairs, and of the obligations which attended them, in consequence of their bad conduct, and for whom a curator was therefore appointed. 2. In Pennsylvania, by act of assembly, an habitual drunkard is deprived of the management of his affairs, when he wastes his property, and … [Read more...]

PRODIGUS

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Latin: In Roman law. A prodigal; a spendthrift; a person whose extravagant habits manifested an inability to administer his own affairs, and for whom a guardian might therefore be appointed. … [Read more...]

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