Proletarius
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In civil law. One who had no property to be taxed, and paid a tax only on account of his children (proles); a person of mean or common extraction. The word has become Frenchified, proletaire signifying one of the common people. PROLICIDE (Lat. proles, offspring, cedere, to kill).
In medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into "foeticide," or the destruction of the foetus in utero, and "infanticide," or the destruction of the new-born infant. Ryan, Med. Jur. 137.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Civil Law. One who had no property to be taxed, and paid a tax only on account of his children (proles); a person of mean or common extraction. The word has become, in French, prolétaire signifying one of the common people; and in English proletariat.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat.
In Roman law. A person of poor or mean condition; those among the common people whose fortunes were below a certain valuation; those who were so poor that they could not serve the state with money, but only with their children, (proles.) Calvin.; Vicat.