A measure of length containing two feet and a half; the geometrical pace is five feet long. The common pace is the length of a step; the geometrical i...
The act of making peace between two countries which have teen at war; the restoration of public tranquillity. ...
International law. When contracts between nations are to be performed by a single act, and their execution is at an end at once, they are not called t...
civil law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his creditor, a certain day, or a certain time, at which he pro-mised to pay; or it maybe defin...
civil law. An agreement made, between a creditor and his debtor that the former will not demand, from the latter the debt due. By this agreement the d...
An agreement by which a creditor of a sum difficult to recover, promises a portion, for example, one-third, to the person who will undertake to recove...
comm. law. A denomination of money in Bengal. In the computation of ad valorem duties, it is valued at one dollar and ninety-four cent s. Act of March...
A French word signifying country. In law, matter in pais is matter of fact in opposition to matter of record: a trial per pais, is a trial by the coun...
A palfrey; a horse to travel on. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 471; F. N. B. 93. ...
civil law. The name of an abridgment or compilation of the civil law, made by order of the emperor Justinian, and to which he gave the force of law. I...
practice. A schedule or roll containing the names of jurors, summoned by virtue of a writ of venire facias, and annexed to the writ. It is returned in...
Scotch law. A person, accused of a crime; one indicted. ...
practice. A book or paper containing an abstract of all the facts and pleadings necessary, to the full understanding of a case. 2. Courts of error and...
Eng. law. Days on which special arguments are to take place. Tuesdays and Fridays in term time are paper days appointed by the court. Lee s Dict. of P...
By paper money is understood the engagements to pay money which are issued by governments and banks, and which pass as money. Pardes. Dr. Com. n. 9. B...
comm. law. Equal. It is used to denote a state of equality or equal value. Bills of exchange, stocks, and the like, are at par when they sell for thei...
Equality of name or blood, but more especially of land in the partition of an inheritance among co-heirs, hence comes disparage and disparagement. Co....
A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived from the adjective par, equal, and made a substantive by the addition of agium; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. ...
That which is superior. 2. It is usually applied to the highest lord of the fee, of lands, tenements, or hereditaments. F. N. B. 135. Where A lets lan...
The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her hushand s death; they consist generally of her cloth...
civil law. An abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of the Code or Digest. ...
A return made by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, which signified that he had the defendant ready to bring into court. This was a fiction wher...
Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail, because ...
estates. Apart of the estate. 1 Com. Dig. Abatement, H 511 p. 133; 5 Com. Dig. Grant, E 10, p. 545. To parcel is to divide an estate. Bac, Ab. Conditi...
The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners, before the common inheritance has been divided. Litt. sec. 56. Vide 2 Bl. Com. ...
Engl. law. The daughters of a man or woman seised of lands and tenements in fee simple or fee tail, on whom, after the death of such ancestor, such la...
Engl. law. The name of a writ against one who violently breaks a pound, and takes from thence beasts which, for some trespass done, or some other just...
crim. law, pleading. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on ...
Kindred. Vide 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1955; Branch; Line. ...
The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of. 1 Murph. R. 336; 11 S. & R. 93. 2. The term parent differs from that of ancestor, the latter embr...
A man s equals; his peers. (q. v.) 3 Bl. Com. 349. ...
feudal law, Those vassals who were bound to attend the lord s court were so called. Ersk. Inst. B. 2, tit. 3, s. 17. ...
crim. law. In a similar offence or crime; equal in guilt. A person who is in pari delicto with another, differs from a particeps criminis in this, tha...
Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Ab. Stat. I. 3. ...
By the same gradation. ...
A district of country of different extents. In the ecclesiastical law it signified the territory committed to the charge of a parson, vicar, or other ...
The trial by jury , or by a man s peers, or equals, is so called. ...
Eng. law. An enclosed chase (q.v.) extending only over a man s own grounds. The term park signifies an enclosure. 2 Bl. Com. 38. ...
This word, derived from the French parlement, in the English law, is used to designate the legislative branch of the government of Great Britain, comp...
More properly parole. A French word, which means literally, word or speech. It is used to distinguish contracts which are made verbally or in writing ...
An agreement made verbally, not in writing, between the parties, by which one of them leases to the other a certain estate. 2. By the English statute ...
international law. The agreement of persons who have been taken by an enemy that they will not again take up arms against those who captured them, eit...
civil law. One who murders his father; it is applied, by extension, to one who murders his mother, his brother, his sister, or his children. The crime...
eccles. law. One who has full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. 2. He is so called because by his person the church, which is an inv...
fraud. Both parties be in pari delicto is not allowed to allege his own turpitude in such cases, when defendant at law, or prevented from alleging it,...
This term, partipular average, has been condemned as not being exact. See Average. It denotes, in general, every kind of expense or damage, short of t...
pleading. Vide Avermzent. ...
A particular custom is one which only affects the inhabitants of some particular district. To be good, a particular custom must possess these requisit...
An estate which is carved out of a larger and which precedes a remainder; as, an estate for years to A, remainder to B for life; or, an estate, for li...
contracts. A right which a person has to retain property in respect of money or labor expended on such particular property. For example, when a tailor...
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