"non-pros" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Short for non prosequitur.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "non-prosses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-prossing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-prossed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-prossed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "non-pros (third-person singular simple present non-prosses, present participle non-prossing, simple past and past participle non-prossed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow (a lawsuit) to be dropped."
      ],
      "id": "en-non-pros-en-verb-vX6tmI8a",
      "links": [
        [
          "prosecute",
          "prosecute"
        ],
        [
          "lawsuit",
          "lawsuit"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter judgement against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute)."
      ],
      "id": "en-non-pros-en-verb-cY7YvAMS",
      "links": [
        [
          "judgement",
          "judgement"
        ],
        [
          "plaintiff",
          "plaintiff"
        ],
        [
          "prosecute",
          "prosecute"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nonpros"
    }
  ],
  "word": "non-pros"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Law"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Short for non prosequitur.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "non-prosses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-prossing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-prossed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-prossed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "non-pros (third-person singular simple present non-prosses, present participle non-prossing, simple past and past participle non-prossed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow (a lawsuit) to be dropped."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prosecute",
          "prosecute"
        ],
        [
          "lawsuit",
          "lawsuit"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter judgement against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "judgement",
          "judgement"
        ],
        [
          "plaintiff",
          "plaintiff"
        ],
        [
          "prosecute",
          "prosecute"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "nonpros"
    }
  ],
  "word": "non-pros"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: law",
  "path": [
    "non-pros"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "non-pros",
  "trace": ""
}