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virtue of his ownership. When proprietary rights are opposed to acquired rights, such as easements, franchises, etc., they are more often called "natural rights." Sweet. PROPRIETAS. Lat. In the civil and old English law. Property; that which is one's own; ownership. Proprietas plena, full property, including not only the title, but the usufruct, or ex clusive right to the use. Calvin. Proprietas nuda, naked or mere property or ownership; the mere title, separate from the usufruct. Proprietas totius navis carinee causam sequitur. The property of the whole ship follows the condition of the keel. Dig. 6,1, 61. If a man builds a vessel from the very keel with the materials of another, the vessel belongs to the owner of the materials. 2 Kent, Comm. 362. Proprietas verborum est salus pro pietatum. Jenk. Cent. 16. Propriety of words is the salvation of property. PROPRIETATE PROBANDA, DE. A writ addressed to a sheriff to try by an in quest in whom certain property, previous to distress, subsisted. Finch, Law, 316. Proprietates verborum servandse sunt. The proprieties of words [proper meanings of words] are to be preserved or adhered to. Jenk. Cent. p. 136, case 78. PROPRIETE. The French law term cor responding to our "property," or the right of enjoying and of disposing of things in the most absolute manner, subject only to the laws. Brown. PROPRIETOR. This term is almost synonymous with "owner," (q. ©.,) as in the phrase "riparian proprietor." A person en titled to a trade-mark or a design under the acts for the registration or patenting of trade marks and designs (q. v.) is called "propri etor" of the trade-mark or design. Sweet. PROPRIETY. In Massachusetts colo nial ordinance of 1741 is nearly, if not pre cisely, equivalent to property. 7 Cush. 53, 70. In old English law. Property. "Pro priety in action; propriety in possession; mixed propriety." Hale, Anal. § 26. PROPRIO VIGORE. Lat. By its own force; by its intrinsic meaning. PROPTER. For; on account of. The initial word of several Latin phrases.

PBOPO8ITU8. The person proposed; the person from whom a descent is traced. PROPOUND. An executor or other per son is said to propound a will or other testa mentary paper when he takes proceedings for obtaining probate in solemn form. The term is also technically used, in England, to denote the allegations in the statement of claim, in an action for probate, by which the plaintiff alleges that the testator executed the will with proper formalities, and that he was of sound mind at the time. Sweet. PROPRES. In French law. The term "propres" or "biens propres" (as distin guished from "acquets") denotes all proper ty inherited by a person, whether by devise or ab intestato, from his direct or collateral relatives, whether in the ascending or de scending line; that is, in terms of the com mon law, property acquired by "descent" as distinguished from that acquired by "pur chase." PBOPBIA PERSONA. PERSONA. See IN PBO PBOPBIEDAD. In Spanish law. Prop erty. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c 5, PROPRIETARY. A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right. The grantees of Pennsyl vania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces. Webster. PROPRIETARY ARTICLES. Goods manufactured under some exclusive individ ual right to make and sell them. The term is chiefly used in the internal revenue laws of the United States. PROPRIETARY CHAPELS. In En glish law. Those belonging to private per sons who have purchased or erected them with a view to profit or otherwise. PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENTS. This expression is used by Blackstone to denote governments granted out by the crown to individuals, in the nature of feudatory principalities, with inferior regalities and subordinate powers of legislation such as formerly belonged to the owners of counties palatine. 1 Bl. Comm. 108. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. Those rights which an owner of property has by

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