Praefine

The fee paid on suing out the writ of covenant, on levying fines, before the fine was passed. 2 Bl. Comm. 350. PRAEJUDICIALIS (Lat. from prae, before, and judicq/re, to judge).

In the civil law. That which is to be predetermined, or decided before something else. See "Actio Praejudicialis." PRAEJUDICIUM (Law Lat.)

In old English law. Prejudice; detriment; disparagement. Bracton, fol. 19. Sine praejudieio melioris sententiae, without prejudice to the better opinion. Id. fol. 48. A common phrase used by Bracton, when expressing his own opinion on any point. PRAEJURAMENTUM (Law Lat.) In old English law, A preparatory oath, PRAEMIUM (Lat.) Reward; compensation. Praemium assecurationis, compensation for insurance; premium of insurance. Locc. de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 5, § 6. Now used in the law of insurance, in the form "premium," as a common English word. PRAEMIUM PUDICITIAE (Lat.) The price of chastity; or compensation for loss of chastity. A term applied to bonds and other engagements given for the benefit of a seduced female. Sometimes called premium pudoris. 2 Wils. 389, 340, PRAEMUNIRE (Lat.) In order to prevent the pope from assuming the supremacy in granting ecclesiastical livings, a number of statutes were made in England, during the reigns of Edward I. and his successors, punishing certain acts of submission to the papal authority therein mentioned. In the writ for "the execution of these statutes, the words praemunire facias, being used to command a citation of the party, gave not only to the writ, but to the offense itself of maintaining the papal power, the name of praemunire. Co. Litt. 129; Jacob, PRAENOMEN (Lat.) Forename, or first name. The first of the three names by which the Romans were commonly distinguished. It marked the individual, and was commonly written with one letter; as A, for Aulus; C. for Caius, etc. Adams, Rom. Ant. 85. See Fleta, lib. 4, c. 10, § 9; Butler, Hor. Jur. 28,

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