Prolongation

Time added to the duration of something. See Giving Time. PRO LYT /€ (Lat.). In Roman Law. The ies. They were left during this year very century that marriage was recognized by our much to their own direction, and took the law as a temporal benefit, and a breach of name prolytfe, omnino soluti. They studied promise as cognizable by the temporal chiefly the Code and the imperial constitu- courts; 20 Q. B. D. 494, 505. tions. See Dig. Pref. Prim. Const. 2; Cal- A promise of marriage is not to be likened vinus, Lex. to an actual marriage. The latter is not a contract, but a legal relation; while the for- PROMATERTERA (Lat.). Great maternal mer is an executory contract in the strict aunt; the sister of one’s grandmother. Inst. sense of the term, and governed in general 3.

6. 3; Dig. 38. 10. 10.

14. by the ordinary law of contracts, though it