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PROCHRONISM

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An error in chronology ; dating a thing before it happened … [Read more...]

PROCURATOR DEL COMUN

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Sp. In Spanish law, an officer appointed to make Inquiry, put a petitioner in possession of land prayed for, and execute the orders of the executive in that behalf. See Lecompte v. U. S.t 11 How. 115 126, 13 L. Ed. 627. … [Read more...]

PROCINCTUS

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Latin: In the Roman law. A girding or preparing for battle. Testamentum in procinctu, a will made by a soldier, while girding himself, or preparing to engage in battle. Adams, Rom. Ant. 62; Calvin. … [Read more...]

PROCURATOR IN REM SUAM

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Scotch law. This imports that one is acting as attorney as to his own property. When an assignment of a thing is made, as a debt, and a procuration or power of attorney is given to the assignee to receive the same, he is in such case procurator in rein suam. … [Read more...]

PROCLAIM

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To promulgate; to announce ; to publish, by governmental authority, intelligence of public acts or transactions or other matters Important to be known by the people. … [Read more...]

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