What is PROPRIETATE PROBANDA, DE

A writ addressed to a sheriff to try by an inquest iu whom certain property, previous to distress, subsisted. Finch, Law, 316. Proprietates verborum servanda; snnt. The proprieties of words [proper meanings of words] are to be preserved or adhered to Jenk. Cent p. 136, case 78. PROPRIETE 958 PROSECUTION