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Proceeding from or dictated or characterized by prudence prudent discreet sometimes selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences as prudential motives...
Prudentiality
The quality or state of being prudential...
Prudentially
In a prudential manner prudently...
Prudentialist
One who is governed by or acts from prudential motives...
Honorary trustees
Honorary trustees, trustees to preserve contingent remainders, so called because they were bound, in honour only, to decide on the most proper and prudential course, Lewin on Trusts....
Jus
Jus, law, right, equity, authority, and rule.A Roman 'magistratus' generally did not investigate the facts in dispute in such matters as were brought before him; he appointed a judex for that purpose, and gave him instructions. Accordingly, the whole procedure was expressed by the two phrases Jus and Judicium; of which the former comprehended all that took place before the magistratus (in jure), and the latter all that took place before the judex (in judicio). Originally, even the magistratus was called judex, as, for instance, the consul and pr'tor (Liv. iii. 55); and under the empire the term 'judex' often designated the pr'ses, Smith's Dict. of Antiq.All law jus) is distributed into two parts--Jus Gentium and Jus Civile--and the whole body of law peculiar to any state is its Jus Civile (Cic. De Orat. I. 44). The Roman Law, therefore, which is peculiar to the Roman state, is its Jus Civile, sometimes called Jus Civile Romanorum, but more frequently designated by the term Jus Civile o...
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