For the plaintiff; usually abbreviated, pro quer. … [Read more...]

Proportionately; according to a certain rate, percentage, or proportion. Thus, the creditors (of the same class) of an insolvent estate are to be paid pro rata; that is, each is to receive a dividend bearing the same ratio to the whole amount of his claim that the aggregate of assets bears to the aggregate of debts. … [Read more...]

For the affair immediately in hand; adapted to meet the particular occasion. Thus, a course of judicial action adopted under pressure of the exigencies of the affair in hand, rather than in conformity to established precedents, is said to be taken pro re nata. … [Read more...]

For the good of his soul. All prosecutions in the ecclesiastical courts are pro salute animce; hence it will not be a temporal damage founding an action for slander that the words spoken put any one in danger of such a suit. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th. Ed.) 309n, 437; 4 Steph. Comm. 207. … [Read more...]

Latin meaning on one's own behalf or for himself. This typically refers to an individual who represents one's self in court. For example, an indigent but educated litigant who decides to forgo hiring a lawyer he cannot afford and be self represented in court. Some states use the term pro per. … [Read more...]