Propres
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In French law. The term propres or Mens propres is used to denote that property which has come to an individual from his relations, either in a direct by operation of law or by devise. Propres is used in opposition to cbcquets.
Poth. des Propres; 2 Surge, Confl. Laws, 61.
PROPRIA PERSONA (Lat. in his own person). It is a rule in pleading that pleas to the jurisdiction of the court must be pleaded in propria persona, because, if pleaded by attorney, they admit the jurisdiction, as an attorney is an officer of the court, and he is presumed to plead after having obtained leave, which admits the jurisdiction. Lawes, PI.
91.
An appearance may be in propria persona, and need not be by attorney.