PROPINQUITY. Kindred; parentage. Vide. Affinity2; Consanguinity3; Next of kin1.
PROPIOS, or PROPRIOS, Span. law. Certain portions of ground laid off and reserved when a town was founded in Spanish America, as the unalienable property of the town, for the purpose of erecting4 public buildings, markets, &c., or to be used in any other way, under the direction of the municipality, for the advancement5 of the revenues, or the prosperity of the place. 12 Peters' R. 442, note.
PROPONENT6, eccl. law. One who propounds8 a telling as "the party proponent doth allege9 and propound7." 6 Eng. Ecclesiastical R. 356, n.
PROPOSAL. An offer for consideration or acceptance.
2. It is a general rule that a proposal offered to another for acceptance may be withdrawn10 at any time before it is accepted, provided that notice of the withdrawal11 be given to the party to whom it was made. A bid (q. v.) may be withdrawn at any time before acceptance; and a proposal by letter may be withdrawn at any time before, acceptance 1 Pick. 278; and, if accepted, it must be, in the very terms offered. 3 Wheat. 225. Vide Bid; Correspondence; Letter; Offer.
PROPOSITION. An offer to do something. Until it has been accepted, a proposition may be withdrawn by the party who makes it; and to be binding12, the acceptance must be in the same terms, without any variation. Vide Acceptance; Offer; To retract13; and 1 L. R. 190; 4 L. R. 80.
PROPOSITUS. The person proposed. In making genealogical tables, the person whose relations it is desirous to find out, is called the propositus.
TO PROPOUND. To offer, to propose; as, the onus14 probandi in every case lies upon the party who propounds ia will. 1 Curt15. R. 637; 6 Eng. Eccl. R. 417.
PROPRES, French law. The term propres or biens propres, is used to denote that property which has come to an individual from his relations, either in a direct line, ascending16 or descending17, or from a collateral18 line, whether the same have come by operation of law or by devise. Propres is used. in opposition19 to acquets. Poth. Des. Propres; 2 Burge, Confl. of Laws, 61; 2 L. R. S.
PROPRIA PERSONA. In his own person. It is a rule in pleading that pleas to the jurisdiction20 of the court must be pleaded in propria persona, because, if pleaded by attorney, they admit the jurisdiction, as an attorney is an officer of the court, and he is presumed to plead after having obtained leave, which admits the jurisdiction. Lawes on Pl. 91.
2. An appearance may be in propria persona, and need not be by attorney.
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