Proprietate probanda
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The name of a writ. See "De proprietate Probanda." PROPRIETATES VERBORUM OBSERvandae sunt. The proprieties (i. e., proper meanings) of words are to be observed. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 136,
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See De PROPRi ErrATE Probanda.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
A writ which, in English practice, used to be directed to the sheriff, requiring him to inquire by inquest whether goods distrained were the property of the plaintiff, or of the person claiming them. This writ issued when to a writ of replevin the sheriff retm-ned as his reason for not executing it that the distrainor or other person claimed a property in the goods distrained. 2 Arch. Pr. 827. The same object is now obtained by means of a summons to interplead