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Definition of Prays
1. pray [v] - See also: pray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prays
Literary usage of Prays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"This was the old English form ; but now prays seizin of the tenements ...
In dower, prays judgment, and that the dower of the 7 Ins. C1.64 said P. of the ..."
2. New Testament Illustrations: Comprising Choice Selections, Anecdotes by William Basil Jones (1875)
"Abraham's servant prays — Rebekah appears. Jacob prays — the angel is ...
Joseph prays — he is delivered from the prison of Egypt. Moses prays — Amalek is ..."
3. A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law by John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace (1855)
"... wherefore he prays judgment if the said Edward ought to have his aforesaid
action thereof against him, &c. JOHN GLYNN. And the said Edward Collins, ..."
4. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"... prays In<fci/thc granted; for he may have the challenge to the return. ... E.
the сои/in of the tenant, and prays the venire facias to the coro- aers, ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
""Wherefore, by reason of the said auter action pendant, the said defendant prays
judgment of the said writ and declaration, that the same ..."
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