Proper
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
1.
Own; one's own: as, proper — costs, county, debt, goods and chattels, person.
2.
Appropriate, q. v.; well adapted; suitable; fit; sufficient: as, proper — action, county, court, form of decree or judgment, legislation. See Necessary. The proper instructions under which the issue in a contested will case is made up and tried are such instructions as the law of the case and the testimony before the jury make pertinent.^