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Definition of Pro bono
1. Adjective. Done for the public good without compensation.
Definition of Pro bono
1. Adjective. (legal) done without fee, generally for clients of humble means ¹
2. Adverb. In a manner without fee. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pro Bono
Literary usage of Pro bono
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Police Powers Arising Under the Law of Overruling Necessity by William Packer Prentice (1894)
"Repairs may be ordered by writ, allowed in very old law pro bono publico, says
Lord Coke;1 or under ordinances of municipal bodies in some places; ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... by him from lord Vaughan, where he say», the king may dispense" with laws
mode ' pro bono publico complicati,' but nut with such as were made ' pro bono ..."
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