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PRODIGAL, civil law, persons. Prodigals were persons who, though of full age, were incapable of managing their affairs, and of the obligations which attended them, in consequence of their bad conduct, and for whom a curator was therefore appointed.
     2. In Pennsylvania, by act of assembly, an habitual drunkard is deprived of the management of his affairs, when he wastes his property, and his estate is placed in the bands of a committee.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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Summary: The tale of the prodigal son is one of the favorite tropes of the Western tradition.
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We started calling them the Prodigals. At any rate, we took a real blast from an arctic front in December and the two of them perched on our bird feeder looking like death frozen over.
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Or he may have found time to delve into the Bible and ruminate over the parable of the prodigal, which explains the metaphysics of slaying the fatted calf for a prodigal.
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The Elizabethan Prodigals. Berkeley: U of California P, 1976.
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