Proces Verbal

In French law. A written report, which is signed, setting forth a statement of facts. This term is applied to the report proving the meeting and the resolutions passed at a meeting of shareholders or to the report of a commission to take testimony. It can also be applied to the statement drawn up by a huissier in relation to any facts which one of the parties to a suit can be interested in proving; for instance the sale of a counterfeited object. Statements, drawn up by other competent authorities, of misdemeanors or other criminal acts, are also called by this name.

Arg. Fr. Mere, Law, 570.

A true relation in writing in due form of law of what has been done and said verbally in the presence of a public officer and of what he himself does on the occasion.

Hall v. Hall, 11 Tex. 526, 539.