PROCES VERBAL

In French law. A written report, which is signed, setting forth a statement of facts. This term is applied to the report proving the meeting and the resolutions passed at a meeting of shareholders, or to the report of a commission to take testimony. It can also be applied to the statement drawn up by a huissicr in relation to any facts which one of the parties to a suit can be interested in proving; for instance the sale of a counterfeited object Statements, drawn up by other competent authorities, of misdemeanors or other criminal acts, are also called by this name. Arg. Fr. Merc Law, 570. A true relation in writing in due form of law of what has been done and said verbally in the presence of a public ofllcer and of what he himself does on the occasion.