(324) before.] In the civil law. The chief judicial magistrate among the Romans, who exercised an extensive equity jurisdiction. Hallifax, Anal. lib. 3, c. 8, num. 2. Dig. 1. 14. Cod. 1. 39. Adam's Rom. Ant. 128. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 20, § 30. 1 Story's Eq. Jur. §§ 5, 50. The governor of a province. See Nov. 24, pr. Nov. 25, pr. Nov. 29, c. 2. Tayl. Civ. Law, 210. PRÆTOR FIDEI-COMMISSARIUS. Lat. In the civil law. A special prætor created to pronounce judgment in cases of trusts or fidei-commissa. Inst. 2. 23. 1. 2 Story's Eq. Jur. § 966. Called, by Lord Bacon, a "particular chancellor for uses." Bacon on the Stat. of Uses, Law Tracts, 315. 4 Kent's Com. 290. PRÆVARICATOR. Lat. In the civil law. One who betrays his trust, or is unfaithful to his trust. An advocate who aids the opposite party by betraying his client's cause. Dig. 47. 15. 1. Used in Spanish law. Las Partidas, part. 3, tit. 6, 1. 15. PRÆVENTO TERMINO. L. Lat. In old Scotch practice. A form of action known in the forms of the Court of Session, by which a delay to discuss a suspension or advocation was got the better of. Bell's Dict. (325) upon request, in which the lender grants precept of seisin was the order of a supethe use of the subject in express words, rior to his bailie, to give infeftment of cerrevocable at pleasure. Dig. 43. 26. Bell's tain lands to his vassal. Bell's Dict. Dict. (326) profits of lands, as of corn, (grain,) grass, This departure from the proper meaning hops and wood. 2 Bl. Com. 24. (327) 3 Bl. Com. 264. Or he is said to prescribe that he, and all those whose estate (L. Fr. que estate,) he has, have used for such length of time to have common, &c.; which is technically called prescribing in a que estate. Id. 264, 265. in voting, or the privilege of voting first; prescription in a man and his ancestors. the century or tribe which had such privilege being so called from præ, before, and rogare, to ask or give a vote. Adam's Rom. Ant. 97. Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 204. According to Lord Coke, prerogative denotes, in its proper sense, the privilege of the royal assent to acts passed by the houses of parliament, which must be asked and obtained before such acts can become laws. Co. Litt. 90 b. * (328) a living, in offering a clerk to the ordinary PREST, (and afterwards PRIST.) L. for institution. (329) Stark. Evid. 23, 24. See 3 Id. 1234. -A no special inference or process of reasoning probable inference which our common from fact to fact, as there is in natural presense draws from circumstances usually sumption. What is called legal presumpoccurring in such cases. 1 Phill. Evid. 436.-A probable consequence drawn from facts, as to the truth of a fact alleged, but of which there is no direct proof. Wills' Circ. Evid. 17. - An inference affirmative or disaffirmative of the existence of a disputed fact, drawn by a judicial tribunal, by a process of probable reasoning, from some one or more matters of fact, either admitted in the cause, or otherwise satisfactorily established. Best on Presumptions, 12, § 11. See 1 Greenl. Evid. §§ 14 -48. See Præsumptio. An assumption or proposition; such as the presumption of sanity. Burr. Circ. Evid. 38, 39. A principle or rule; as a tion is properly assumption; a legal presumption is a proposition of law, or the application to a certain fact proved, of a rule previously established. 6 Lond. Law Mag. 354. Burr. Circ. Ev. 43, 50.