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  "thread": {
    "id": 266,
    "subject": "Prochein Ami",
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    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-04-22T14:08:02+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-22T14:08:02+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0242@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar",
        "address": "ranjit at gradient.cis.upenn.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-22T14:08:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Prochein Ami",
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          "text": "Here are some tidbits of information of dubious utility.  In\nreading the newspaper I came across the term \"next friend,\"\nwhich in a legal context apparently means something like a\nlegal guardian for someone incompetent to represent\nhim/herself, only not quite.  Curious as to how this applied\nto Remora, who calls himself Quetzal's prochein ami, I did\nsome poking around and came up with some definitions that\nwere of no help whatsoever.  As a bloodsucking space\nvampire, Quetzal probably does not in fact have any legal\nrights under the charter, but I don't think that's what\nRemora meant.\n\nAnyway, I discovered this copy of Bouvier's 1856 Law\nDictionary (United States) on the web:\n\n\thttp://pocari-sweat.jprc.com/~karl/govt/bouvier/bouvier1856.html\n\nHere are some of the words I found in it.\n\n\nPROCHEIN AMY, more correctly prochain ami. Next friend. \n\nNEXT FRIEND. One who, without being regularly appointed\nguardian, acts for the benefit of an infant, married woman [!],\nor other person, not sui juris. Vide Amy; Prochein Amy.\n\nPROCHEIN. Next. This word is frequently used in composition;\nas, prochein amy, prochein cousin, and the\nlike. Co. Lit. 10.\n\nAMY or ami, a French word, signifying, friend. Prochein amy,\n(q. v.) the next friend. Alien amy, a foreigner, the citizen\nor subject of some friendly power or prince.  [Surely\nQuetzal is an ALIEN AMY, or perhaps an ALIEN ENEMY - \"Aliens\nare either alien friends or alien enemies. It is only alien\nfriends who have the rights above enumerated; alien enemies\nare incapable, during the existence of war to sue, and may\nbe ordered out of the country.\"]\n\n\n\nAlso:\n\nAYUNTAMIENTO, Spanish law. A congress of persons the\nmunicipal council of a city or a town. 1 White's Coll. 416; 12\nPet. 442, notes.\n\nALCADE, Span. law. The name of a judicial officer in Spain,\nand in those countries which have received the body of their\nlaws from those of Spain.\n\nPROLOCUTOR. In the ecclesiastical law, signifies a president\nor chairman of a convocation.\n\nCOADJUTOR, eccl. law. A fellow helper or assistant;\nparticularly applied to the assistant of a bishop.\n\nPROTHONOTARY. The title given to an officer who officiates\nas principal clerk of some courts. Vin Ab. h. t.\n\n\nAnd related to Mantis' derivation of \"aquastor:\"\n\nQUAESTIO, Rom. civ. law. A sort of commission (ad\nquaerendum) to inquire into some criminal matter given to a\nmagistrate or citizen, who was called quaesitor or quaestor\nwho made report thereon to the senate or the people, as the\none or the other appointed him.\n\nQUAESTOR, The name of a magistrate of ancient Rome.\n\n\nAnd as long as I'm here:\n\nCARGO, mar. law. The entire load of a ship or other\nvessel. Abb. on Sh. Index, h. t.; 1 Dall. 197;\nMerl. Rep. h. t.; 2 Gill & John. 136. This term is usually\napplied to goods only, and does not include human beings. 1\nPhill. Ins. 185; 4 Pick. 429. But in a more extensive and\nless technical sense, it includes persons; thus we say a\ncargo of emigrants. See 7 Mann. Gr. 729, 744.\n\nVOID, contracts, practice. That which has no force or\neffect.  [\"The sign of addition could not be the sign of\nPas, which was the voided cross.\" (paraphrased)]\n\n\nJust in case you were wondering:\n\nCRIB-BITING. A defect in horses, which consists in biting\nthe crib while in the stable. This is not, considered as a\nbreach of general warranty of soundness. Holt's Cas. 630."
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