A privilege given to the prosecuting attorney in deciding whether to prosecute or to plea bargain, recommend parole, etc.
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PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT
the term that is applied to the misconduct of a prosecutor who needs to use legitimate ways to obtain a conviction.
PROSECUTRIX
In criminal law . A female prosecutor.
PROSEQUI
Lat To follow up or pursue ; to sue or prosecute. See NOLLE PBOSE- QUI.
PROSEQUITUR
Lat. He follows up or pursues; he prosecutes. See NON PBOS.
PROSES
Lat. In Roman law. A president or governor. Called a “nomen generate,” including pro-consuls, legates, and all who governed provinces.
PROSOCER
Lat. In the civil law . A father-in-law’s father; grandfather of wife.
PROSOCERUS
Lat. In the civil law . A wife’s grandmother .
PROSPECT
A potential client or customer who has been identified with a willing to purchase or to secure the goods and services of a company. A prospect can also be called […]
PROSPECT THEORY
Developed in 1979 by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Most individuals will make a decision that will lead to a gain rather than a loss. Risks are put into 2 […]
PROSPECTING
This is the collection of names of potential leads using a systematic process. It may be from a mailing list or email list to people interested in your products or […]
PROSPECTIVE
Looking forward; contemplating the future. A law is said to be prospective (as opposed to retrospective ) when it is applicable only to cases which shall arise after its enactment.
PROSPECTIVE DAMAGES
Damages which are expected to follow from the act or state of facts made the basis of a plaintiff’s suit; damages which have not yet accrued, at the time of […]
PROSPECTIVE EARNINGS
the term that is applied to the anticipated earnings of a person or there future earnings .
PROSPECTIVE FINITE POLICY
Insurance that shifts the time of loss in the future. It is a risk financing vehicle. Refer to retrospective finite policy .
PROSPECTIVE LAW
a term that applies to new laws and means that they are not retrospective and only start from the time of enactment.
PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM
Medicare. A payment that is used in conjunction with a Part A medicare payment. This payment is a reimbursement relative to the patients condition when first taken to hospital.
PROSPECTIVE RATING
A method of calculating the premiums or rates for a time in the future. This process takes into account any posses that have occured in the previous years that are […]
PROSPECTIVE RATING PLAN
The method that is used to establish the premiums or rates in future years that is dependent on any losses that have occured in previous years
PROSPECTIVE REIMBURSEMENT
This is a system that allows for a reimbursement on an annual basis . The reimbursement will have been extablished previously and used in the coming years.
PROSPECTIVE RESERVE
This is an amount that is kept in reserve that will cover any claims in the future that is based on the previous claims of years gone by. This amount […]
PROSPECTUS
A document published by a company or corporation , or by persons acting as its agents or assignees, setting forth the nature and objects of an issue of shares, debentures, […]
PROSPERITY
A time in which a state or country has a low level of unemployment and a high level of sales and total incomes. If inflation is kept low, sales figures […]
PROSTITUTE
A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 611; State v. Stoyell, 54 Me. 24, 89 Am. Dec. 716.
PROTECTED CELL COMPANY
A captive where individual accounts called cells are used for selfinsurance . The cells are seperated by statute protecting them from loss. Refer to agency, group, pure, senior, sister and […]