KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PROTECTOR OP SETTLEMENT

PROSECUTOR

PROSECUTOR. In practice. He who prosecutes another for a crime in the name of the government. — Private prosecutor. One who sets in mo tion the machinery of criminal justice against a person whom he suspects or believes to be guilty of a crime, by laying an accusation before the proper authorities, and who is not himself an offi cer of justice. See Heacock v. State, 13 Tex. App. 129; State v. Millain, 3 Nev. 425.— Pros ecutor of the pleas. This name is given, in New Jersey, to the county officer who is charged with the prosecution of criminal actions, cor responding to the "district attorney" or "coun ty attorney" in other states.— Public prosecu tor. An officer of government (such as a state's attorney or district attorney) whose function is the prosecution of criminal actions, or suits par 1 taking of the nature of criminal actions. Lat To follow up or pur sue ; to sue or prosecute. See NOIXB PROSE QUI. PROSEQUITUR. Lat He follows up or pursues; he prosecutes. See NON PEOS. PROSOCER. Lat In the civil law. A father-in-law's father; grandfather of wife. PROSOCERUS. Lat In the civil law. A wife's grandmother. PROSPECTIVE. Looking forward; con templating the future. A law is said to be prospective (as opposed to retrospective) when it is applicable only to cases which shall arise after its enactment. —Prospective damages. See DAMAGES. A document published by a company or corporation, 'or by persons acting as its agents or assignees, setting forth the nature and objects of an issue of shares, debentures, or other securities creat ed by the company or corporation, and in viting the public to subscribe to the issue. A prospectus is also usually published on the issue, in England, of bonds or other se curities by a foreign state or corporation. Sweet In the civil law. Prospect; the view of external objects. Dig. 8, 2, 3, 15. PROSTITUTE. A woman who Indis criminately consorts with men for hire. Car penter v. People, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 611; State v. Stoyell, 54 Me. 24, 89 Am. Dec. 716. PROSTITUTION. Common lewdness; whoredom; the act or practice of a woman who permits any man who will pay her price to have sexual intercourse with her. See Com. v. Cook, 12 Mete. (Mass.) 97. Protectio trahit subjectionem, et sub jectio protectionem. Protection draws with it subjectipn, and subjection protection. PROSPECTUS. PROSECUTRIX. In criminal law. A female prosecutor. PROSEQUI.

7 Coke, 5a. The protection of an individual by government is on condition of his submis sion to the laws, and such submission on the other hand entitles the individual to the protection of the government Broom, Max. 78. PROTECTION. In English law. A writ by which the king might by a special prerogative, privilege a defendant from all personal and many real suits for one year at a time, and no longer, In respect of his be ing engaged in his service out of the realm. 3 Bl. Comm. 289. In former times the name "protection" was also given to a certificate given to a sailor to show that he was exempt from impressment into the royal navy. In mercantile law. The name of a doc ument generally given by notaries public to sailors and other persons going abroad, in which it is certified that the bearer therein named is a citizen of the United States. In public commercial law. A system by which a government imposes customs duties upon commodities of foreign origin or manufacture when imported into the coun try, with the purpose and effect of stimulat ing and developing the home production of the same or equivalent articles, by discour aging the importation of foreign goods, or by raising the price of foreign commodities to a point at which the home producers can successfully" compete with them. PROTECTION OF INVENTIONS ACT. The statute 33 & 34 Vict c. 27. By this act it is provided that the exhibition of new inventions shall not prejudice patent rights, and that the exhibition of designs shall not prejudice the right to registration of such designs. PROTECTION ORDER. In English practice. An order for the protection of the wife's property, when the husband has will fully deserted her, issuable by the divorce court under statutes on that subject. PROTECTIONIBUS DE. The English statute 33 Edw. I. St 1, allowing a challenge to be entered against a protection, etc. PROTECTIVE TARIFF. A law impos ing duties on imports, with the purpose and the effect of discouraging the use of prod ucts of foreign origin, and consequently of stimulating the home production of the same or equivalent articles. B, E. Thompson, in Enc. Brit. PROTECTOR OF SETTLEMENT. In English law. By the statute 3 & 4 Wnt IV. c. 74, § 32, power is given to any settlor to appoint any person or persons, not exceed ing three, the "protector of the settlement" The object of such appointment is to prevent the tenant In tail from barring any subse-