Prima facie evidence

plaintiffs are entitled to introduce the prior judgment to establish prima facie all matters of fact and law necessarily decided by the conviction and the verdict on which it was based.

Such as is, in judgment of law, sufficient to establish PRIMA PARS AEQUITATIS AEQUALItas. The radical element of justice is equality. PRIMA TONSURA (Lat.) A grant of a right to have the first crop of grass. 1 Chit. Prac. 181. PRIMAE IMPRESSIONIS (Law Lat.) Of the first impression; without precedent. _ A term applied to a new case, or one which has not occurred before, or to a question which is raised for the first time. Eyre, J., 5 Mod. 23; 1 Vern. 94; Piatt, J., 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 310. "The question here, as there, is primae impressionis; the case here, as there, is the first of its kind." Story, J., 3 Mason (U. S.). 116, 125. The expression is applied to actions, returns, motions, and other proceedings. Freem. 431; Holt, C. J., 5 Mod. 21; Mansfield, C. J., 4 Taunt. 3; 1 Taunt. 492, arg. The Gunpowder Plot was called by Lord Coke, in his argument as attorney general in the case, an offense primae impressionis. 2 How. St. Tr. 167. PRIMAE (or PRIMARIAE) PRECES (Lat.)

In the civil law. An imperial prerogative, by which the emperor exercised the right of naming to the first prebend that became vacant after his accession, in every church of the empire. Goldast. Constit. Imper. tom. 3, p. 406; 1 Bl. Comm. 381.

Evidence good and sufficient on its face; such evidence as, in the judgment of the law, is sufficient to establish a given fact, or the group or chain of facts constituting the party's claim or defense, and which if not rebutted or contradicted, will remain sufficient. Crane v. Morris, 6 Peti 6ll, 8 LEd. 514; State v. Burungame, 146 Mo. 207, 48 S. W. 72; State v. Roten, 86 N. C. 701; Blough v. Parry, 144 Ind. 463, 43 N. E. 560. Evidence which suffices for the proof of a particular fact until contradicted and overcome by other evidence. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. 1903, § 1833. Evidence which, standing alone and unexplained, would maintain the proposition and warrant the conclusion to support which it is introduced. Emmons v. Bank, 07 Mass. 230. An inference or presumption of law, affirmative or negative of a fact, in the absence of proof, or until proof can be obtained or produced to overcome the inference. People v. Thacher, 1 Thomp. & C(N. Y.) 167.

Defined under Evidence in Black's Law Dictionary.