Proof, in civil process, is a sufficient reason for the truth of a Juridical proposition by which a party seeks either to maintain hls own claim or to defeat the claim of another, whart Ev. t 1
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To utter formally, offl-cially, and solemnly; to declare aloud and in a fornlal manner. In this sense a court is said to “pronounce” judgment or a sentence. See Ex parte Crawford, 36 Tex. Cr. R. 180, 36 S. W. 92
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Lat. In the civil law. A great-granddaughter. Inst 3, 6, 1; Bract fol. 67
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Lat. In the civil Uw. A quasi contract, by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quan-tity of fungible things, which have been paid to him through mistake, contracts towards the payer the obligation of returning him as much. Poth, de l’Usure, pt 3, s. 1, a. 1
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Lnt. In the civil law. A great-grandson. Inst. 3, 6, 1; Bract fol. 67
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To publish; to an* nounce officially; to make public as Important or obligatory. 8ee wooden v. western New York & P. R. Co. (Super. CL) 18 N. Y. Supp. 769
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The order given to cause a law to be executed, and to make it public; it differs from publication. 1 Bi. Comm. 45
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A plaintiff in a suit of duplex querela, (q. v.) 2 Prob. Dlv. 192
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Lat in Roman law. To make public; to mnke publicly known; to promulgate. To publish or make known a law, after lts enactment
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Containing or consist-ing of a promise; in the nature of a promise; stipulating or engaging for a future act or course of conduct
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In the law relating to corporations, those persons are called the “promoters” of a company who first asso-ciate themselves together for the purpose of organizing the company, issuing its pro-spcctus, procuring subscriptions to the stock, securing a charter, etc. See Dickerman v. Northern Trust Co., 176 U. S. 181, 20 Sup. Ct. 311, 44 L. Ed. 423; Bosher v. Rlch-mond A H. Land Co., 89 Va. 455, 16 S. E. 360, 37 Am. St. Rep. 879; Yale Gas Stove Co. v. wilcox, 64 Conn. 101, 29 AU. 303, 25 L. R. A. 90, 42 Am. St. Rep. 159;. Densmore OI1 Co. v. Densmore, 64 Pa. 49
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Lat in the civil law. A promiser; properly the party who under-took to do a thing in answer to the lnterro-gatlon of the other party, who was called the “stipulator.”
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A declaration, verbal or written, made hy one person to another for a good or valuable consideration iu the na-ture of a covenant hy which the promisor binds himself to do or forbear some act, and gives to the promisee a legal- right to demand and enforce a fulfillment. See Taylor v. Miller, 113 N. C. 340, 18 S. E. 504; New-comb v. Clark, 1 Denio (N. Y.) 228; Foute v. Bacon, 2 Cush. (Miss.) 164; U. S. v. Bal-tic Mills Co., 124 Fed. 41, 59 C. C. A. 558
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In Roman law. A name given to students of iaw in the fifth year of their course; as being in advance of the Lyttt, or students of the fourth year. Cal-vin
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Lat. In the clvll law. A great maternal aunt; the sister of one’s grandmother
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In ecclesiastical law. The president or chairman of a convocation
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Time added to the duration of something; an extension of the time limited for the performance of an agree-ment. A prolongation of time accorded to the principal debtor will discharge the sure-ty
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In medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the sub-ject into foeticide, or the destruction of the foetus in utero, and infanticide, or the de-struction of the new'-boru infant. Ry. Med. Jur. 280
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TY. The unnecessary and su-perfluous statement of facts in pleading or in evidence. This will be rejected as lmperti-nent. 7 Price, 278, note
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The class of prole-tarii; the lowest stratum of the people of a country, consistiug mainly of the waste of otber classes, or of those fractious of the population who, by their isolation nnd their poverty, have no place in the established or-der of society
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Lat. In Roman law. A person of poor or mean condition; those among the common people whose fortunes were below a certain valuation ; those who were so poor that they could not serve the state with money, but only with their chil-dren, (proles.) Calvin.; Vicat
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