Protocolo — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In Spanish law. The original draft or writing of an instrument which remains in the possession of the escribano, or notary. White, New Recop. lib. 3, tit. 7, c. 5, § 2. PROTUTOR (Lat) In civil law. He who, not being the tutor of a pupil or minor, has administered his property or affairs as if he had been, whether he thought himself legally invested with the authority of a tutor or not. He who marries a woman who is tutrix becomes, by the marriage, a protutor. The protutor is equally responsible as the tutor. PROUT PATET PER RECORDUM (Lat.) As appears by the record. This phrase is frequently used in pleading; as, for example, in debt on a judgment or other matter of record, unless when it is stated as an inducement, it is requisite, after showing the matter of record, to refw to it by the prout patet per recordum. 1 Chit. PL *356; 10 Me. 127.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

(Spanish) The original draft of a document which is held by the notary.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Spanish law. The original draft or writing of an instrument which remains in the possession of the es-oribano or notary. White, New Recop. llb. 8, tit 7, c. 5, § 2. The term "protocolo," when applied to a single paper, means the first draft of an Instrument duly executed before a notary,— the matrix,—because it is the source from which must be token copies to be delivered to interested parties as their evidence of right; and it also means a bound book in which the notary places and keeps in their order instruments executed before him, from which copies are taken for the use of parties interested. Downing v. Diaz, 80 Tex. 436, 16 S. W. 53.