Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

PROCHEIN AVOIDANCE

PROCURACY

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PROCLAMATION OF A FINE. The notice or proclamation which was made after the engrossment of a fine of lands, and which consisted in its being openly read in court sixteen times, viz., four times in the term in which it was made, and four times in each of the three succeeding terms, which, however, was afterwards reduced to one read ing in each term. Cowell. See 2 Bl. Comm. 352. PROCLAMATION OF REBELLION. In old English law. A proclamation to be made by the sheriff commanding the attend ance of a person who had neglected to obey a subpoena or attachment in chancery. If he did not surrender himself after this procla mation, a commission of rebellion issued. 3 Bl. Comm. 444. PROCLAMATION OF RECUSANTS. A proclamation whereby recusants were formerly convicted, on non-appearance at the assizes. Jacob. PROCLAMATOR. An officer of the English court of common pleas. PRO-CONSUL. Lat. In the Roman law. Originally a consul whose command was prolonged after his office had expired. An officer with consular authority, but with out the title of "consul." The governor of a province. Calvin. PROCREATION. The generation of children. One of the principal ends of mar riage is the procreation of children. Inst. tit. 2, in pr. PROCTOR. A procurator, proxy, or at torney. More particularly, an officer of the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts whose du ties anu business correspond exactly to those of an attorney at law or solicitor in chancery. An ecclesiastical person sent to the lower house of convocation as the representative of a cathedral, a collegiate chinch, or the clergy of a diocese. Also certain administrative or magisterial officers in tbe universities. PROCTORS OF THE CLERGY. They who are chosen and appointed to appear for cathedral or other collegiate churches; as also for the common clergy of every diocese, to sit in the convocation house in the time of par liament. Wbarton. PROCURACY. The writing or instru ment which authorizes a procurator to act. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

chein ami; that is, some friend (not being his guardian) who will appear as plaintiff in his name. PROCHEIN AVOIDANCE. L. Fr. Next vacancy. A power to appoint a minis ter to a church when it shall next become void. PROCHRONISM. An error in chronol ogy; dating a thing before it happened. PROCINCTUS. Lat. In the Roman law. A girding or preparing for battle. Testamentum in procinctu, a will made by a soldier, while girding himself, or preparing to engage in battle. Adams, Rom. Ant. 62; Calvin. PROCLAIM. To promulgate; to an nounce; to publish, by governmental author ity, intelligence of public acts or transactions or other matters important to be known by the people. PROCLAMATION. The act of causing some state matters to be published or made generally known. A written or printed doc ument in which are contained such matters, issued by proper authority. 3 Inst. 162; 1 Bl. Cotnm. 170. The word "proclamation" is also used to express the public nomination made of any one to a high office; as, such a prince was proclaimed emperor. In practice. The declaration made by the crier, by authority of the court, that something is about to be done. In equity practice. Proclamation made by a sheriff upon a writ of attachment, sum moning a defendant who has failed to appear personally to appear and answer the plain tiff's bill. 3 Bl. Comm. 444. PROCLAMATION BY LORD OF MANOR. A proclamation made by the lord of a manor (thrice repeated) requiring the heir or devisee of a deceased copyholder to present himself, pay the fine, and be admit ted to the estate; failing which appearance, the lord might seize the lands quousque (pro visionally.) PROCLAMATION OF EXIGENTS. In old English law. When an exigent was awarded, a writ of proclamation issued, at the same time, commanding the sheriff of the county wherein tbe defendant dwelt to make three proclamations thereof in places the most notorious, and most likely to come to his knowledge, a month before the outlawry should take place. 3 Bl. Comm. 284.

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