R. In old English law. A provider, or purveyor. Spelman. Also a person nominated to be the next incumbent of a benefice (not yet vacant) by the pope
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The act of inciting another to do a particular deed. Such conduct
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A condltion or provision which is inserted in a deed, lease, mortgage, or contract, and on the performance or non-performance of which the validity of the deed, etc., frequently depends; It usually be-glns with the word “provided.”
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In English practice. A trial brought on by the def end-ant, in caseB where the plaintiff, after issue joined, neglects to proceed to trial; so call-ed from a clause in the writ to the sheriff, which directs him, in case, two writs come to his hands, to execute but one of them. 3 Bl. Comm. 357
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Lat in English history. Those acts of parliament which were passed to carb the arbitrary power of the crown. See Pbovision
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Food; victuals; articles of food for human consumption. See Bot-elor v. washington, 3 Fed. Cas. 962; In re Lentz (D. C,) 97 Fed. 487; Nash v. Farring-ton, 4 Allen (Mass.) 157; State v. Angelo, 71 N. H. 224, 51 Atl. 905
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Temporary; prelimi nary; tentative; taken or done hy way of precaution or ad interim
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Lat. In the civU law. one who has his domicile in a province. Dig. 50, 16, 190
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In Scotch practice. An action for proving the tenor of a lost deed. BeU
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In English law. The several archi-epfscopal courts in the two ecclesiastical provinces of England
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A work on ecclesiastical law, by william Lyndwode, official principal to Archbishop Chichele in the reign of Edward IV. 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 25, p. 117
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E. Sometimes this signifies the district into which a country lias been divid ed; as, the province of Canterbury, in Eng-land; the province of Languedoc, in France. Sometimes it means a dependency or colony, as, the province of New Brunswick. It is sometimes used figuratively to signify power or authority; as, it is the province of the court to judge of the law; that of the jury to decide on the facts. 1 Bl. Comm. Ill; Tomlins
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In old Englisb law. A person who, on being indicted of treason or fel ony, and arraigned for the same, confessed the fact before plea pleaded, and appealed or accused others, his accomplices, in the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 4 Bl. Comm. 329, 330
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The word used in introducing a proviso (which see.) ordinarily it sig nifles or expresses a condition; but this is not invariable, for, according to the context, it may import a covenant, or a limitation or qualification, or a restraint, modification, or exception to something w’hich precedes. See Stanley v. Colt, 5 wall. 166, 18 L. Ed. 502 , Stoel v. Flanders, 68 wis. 256, 32 N. W. 114 ; Robertson v. Caw, 3 Barb. (N. Y.) 418; Paschall v. Passmore, 15 Pa. 308; Carroll v. State, 58 Ala. 396; Colt v. Hubbard, 83 Conn. 281; woodruff v. woodruff, 44 N. J. Eq. 349, 16 Atl. 4, 1 L. R. A. 380
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L. Fr. Provable; Justifiable ; manifest. Kelham
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To establish a fact or hypothesis as true by satisfactory and sufliclent evidence
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Lat in the civil law. He who, not being the tutor of a minor, has administered his property or affairs as lf he had been, whether he thought himself legal-ly invested with the authority of a tutor or not Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 630
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The first draft or rough minutes of an instrument or transaction; the original copy of a dispatch, treat}’, or other document Brande
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In Spanish law. The original draft or writing of an instrument which remains in the possession of the es-cribano, or notary, white, New Recop. lib. 8, tit 7, c. 5, $ 2
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The title given to an officer who officiates as principal cierk of some courts. Vin. Abr. See Trebilcox v. McAlpine, 46 Hun (N. Y.) 469; whitney v. Hopkins, 135 Pa. 246, 19 Atl. 1075
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L. Lat Protesting. Tbe emphatic word formerly used in plead-ing by way of protestation. 3 Bl. Comm. 311. See Protestation
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