Legal Definitions - producent

Producent

Historically, in Ecclesiastical law (the legal system of the Christian church), a producent referred to the individual or party responsible for presenting or summoning a witness to provide testimony in a church court proceeding.

• Imagine a dispute in a medieval church court concerning the rightful ownership of a piece of land donated to a monastery. If the abbot of the monastery wished to present a local farmer who could testify about the land's historical use and ownership, the abbot would be acting as the producent by calling that farmer as a witness.

• Consider a historical case where a parishioner was accused of violating church doctrine. If the church official prosecuting the case decided to call another parishioner to testify about the accused's actions or statements, that church official would be the producent, as they were the party bringing forward the witness.

• In a historical ecclesiastical proceeding seeking to annul a marriage, if one of the spouses needed to establish a specific fact, such as a pre-existing impediment, and called a family member or a priest to testify to that fact, the spouse who summoned that individual would be the producent in that specific instance.