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PRESUMPTIVE HEIR. One who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would under the present circumstances of things be his heir, but whose right of inh...

PRESS. By a figure this word signifies the art of printing. The press is free. 2. All men have a right to print and publish whatever they may deem pro...

PRESERVATION. keeping safe from harm; avoiding injury. This term always presupposes a real or existing danger. 2. A jettison, which is always for the ...

PRESENTEE, eccles. law., A clerk who has been presented by his patron to a bishop in order to be instituted in a church. PRESENTMENT, crim. law, pract...

PRESENCE. The existence of a person in a particular place. 2. In many contracts and judicial proceedings it is necessary that the parties should be pr...

PRESCRIPTIBLE. That which is subject to prescription. PRESCRIPTION. The manner of acquiring property by a long, honest, and uninterrupted possession o...

PREMIUM PUDICITIAE, contracts. Literally the price of chastity. 2. This is the consideration of a contract by which a man promises to pay to a woman w...

PREMISES. that which is put before. The word has several significations; sometimes it means the statements which have been before made; as, I act upon...

PREGNANT, pleading. A fulness in the pleadings which admits or involves a matter which is favorable to the opposite party. 2. It is either an affirmat...

PREGNANCY, med. jurisp. This is defined by medical writer; to be the state of a female who has within her ovary or womb, a fecundated germ which gradu...