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Law Dictionary Letter P

Prevention

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Prevention [fr. pr'venio, Lat.], the right which a superior person or officer has to lay hold of, claim, or transact, an affair prior to an inferior one, to whom otherwise it more immediately belongs, Canon Law Term.

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