Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE

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word from which "price" is derived sometime* means "reward," "value," "estimation," "equiva lent." 64 N. T. 177. PRICE CURRENT. A list or enumer ation of various articles of merchandise, with their prices, the duties, if any, payable thereon, when imported or exported, with the drawbacks occasionally allowed upon their exportation, etc. Wharton. PRICKING FOR SHERIFFS. In England, when the yearly list of persons nominated for the office of sheriff is submit ted to the queen, she takes a pin, and to in sure impartiality, as it is said, she lets the point of it fall upon one of the three names nominated for each county, etc., and the per son upon whose name it chances to fall is sheriff for the ensuing year. This is called "pricking for sheriffs." Atk. Sher. 18. PRICKING NOTE. Where goods in tended to be exported are put direct from the station of the warehouse into a ship alongside, the exporter fills up a document to authorize the receiving the goods on board. This doc ument is called a "pricking note," from a practice of pricking holes in the paper corre sponding with the number of packages count ed into the ship. Hamel, Cust. 181. PRIEST. A minister of a church. A person in the second order of the ministry, as distinguished irom bishops and deacons. PRIMA FACIE. Lat. At first sight; on the first appearance; on the face of it; so far as can be judged from the first disclosure; presumably. A litigating party is said to have a prima facie case when the evidence in his favor is sufficiently strong for his opponent to be called on to answer it. A prima fade case, then, is one which is es tablished by sufficient evidence, and can be over thrown only by rebutting evidence adduced on the other side. In some cases the only question to ba considered is whether there is a prima fade case or no. Thus a grand jury are bound tofinda true bill of indictment, if the evidence before them creates a prima fade case against the accused; and for this purpose, therefore, it is not necessary for them to hear the evidence for the defense. Mozley & Whitley. PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE. Such evidence as, in judgment of law, is sufficient to establish the fact, and, if not rebutted, re mains sufficient for the purpose. 6 Pet. 632. That which, not being inconsistent with the falsity of the hypothesis, nevertheless raises such a degree of probability in its favor that it must prevail if it be credited by the jury, unless it be re butted, or the contrary proved. Conclv&Vve evi dence, on the other hand, is that which excludes, or at least tends to exclude, the possibility of the

PREVENTION OP CRIMES ACT. The statute 34 & 35 Viet. c. 112, passed for the purpose of securing a better supervision over habitual criminals. This act provides that a person who is for a second time con victed of crime may, on his second convic tion, be subjected to police supervision for a period of seven years after the expiration of the punishment awarded him. Penalties are imposed on lodging-house keepers, etc., for harboring thieves or reputed thieves. There are also provisions relating to receivers of stolen property, and dealers in old metals who purchase the same in small quantities. This act repeals the habitual criminals act of 1869, (32 & 33 Viet. c. 99.) Brown. PREVENTIVE JUSTICE. The system of measures taken by government with ref erence to the direct prevention of crime. It generally consists in obliging those persons whom there is probable ground to suspect of future misbehavior to give full assurance to the public that such offense as is apprehended shall not happen, by finding pledges or se curities to keep the peace, or for their good behavior. See 4 131. Comm. 251; 4 Steph. Comm. 290. PREVENTIVE SERVICE. The name given in England to the coast-guard, or armed police, forming a part of the customs service, and employed in the prevention and detection of smuggling. Previous intentions are judged by subsequent acts. 4 Denio, 319, 320. PREVIOUS QUESTION. In the pro cedure of parliamentary bodies, moving the "previous question" is a method of avoiding a direct vote on the main subject of discus sion. It is described in May, Par!. Prac. 277. PREVIOUSLY. An adverb of time, used in comparing an act or state named with another act or state, subsequent in order of time, for the purpose of asserting the priori ty of the first. 40 Iowa, 94. PRICE. The consideration (usually in money) given for the purchase of a thing. It is true that "price" generally means the sum of money which an article is sold for; but this is simply because property is generally sold for mon ey, not because the word has necessarily such a restricted meaning. Among writers on political economy, who use terms with philosophical accu racy, the word "price" is not always or even gen erally used as denoting the moneyed equivalent of property sold. They generally treat and regard price as the equivalent or compensation, in what ever form received, for property sold. The Latin

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