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PACE . A measure of length containing two feet and a ...
PACIFICATION . The act of making peace between two countries which have ...
PACTIONS International law. When contracts between nations are to be performed by ...
PACTUM CONSTITUTAE PECUNIAE civil law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his ...
PACTUM DE NON PETANDO civil law. An agreement made, between a creditor and his debtor ...
PACTUM DE QUOTA LITIS . An agreement by which a creditor of a sum difficult ...
PAGODA comm. law. A denomination of money in Bengal. In the computation ...
PAIS, or PAYS . A French word signifying country. In law, matter in pais ...
PALFRIDUS A palfrey; a horse to travel on. 1 Tho. Co. ...
PANDECTS civil law. The name of an abridgment or compilation of the ...
PANEL practice. A schedule or roll containing the names of jurors, summoned ...
PANNEL Scotch law. A person, accused of a crime; one indicted. ...
PAPER DAYS Eng. law. Days on which special arguments are to take place. ...
PAPER MONEY . By paper money is understood the engagements to pay money ...
PAPER-BOOK practice. A book or paper containing an abstract of all the ...
PAR comm. law. Equal. It is used to denote a state ...
PARAGE . Equality of name or blood, but more especially of ...
PARAGIUM . A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived from ...
PARAMOUNT . That which is superior. 2. It is ...
PARAPHERNALIA . The name given to all such things as a ...
PARATITLA civil law. An abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of ...
PARATUM HABEO . A return made by the sheriff to a capias ...
PARAVAIL . Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, ...
PARCEL estates. Apart of the estate. 1 Com. Dig. Abatement, H 511 ...
PARCENARY . The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly ...
PARCENERS Engl. law. The daughters of a man or woman seised ...
PARCO FRACITO Engl. law. The name of a writ against one who violently ...
PARDON crim. law, pleading. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding ...
PARENTAGE . Kindred. Vide 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1955; Branch; Line. ...
PARENTS . The lawful father and mother of the party spoken ...
PARES . A man's equals; his peers. (q. v.) 3 Bl. ...
PARES CURIE feudal law, Those vassals who were bound to attend the lord's ...
PARI DELICTO crim. law. In a similar offence or crime; equal in guilt. ...
PARI MATERIA . Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, ...
PARI PASSU . By the same gradation. ...
PARISH . A district of country of different extents. In the ecclesiastical ...
PARIUM JUDICIUM . The trial by jury , or by a man's ...
PARK Eng. law. An enclosed chase (q.v.) extending only over a man's ...
PARLIAMENT . This word, derived from the French parlement, in the English ...
PAROL . More properly parole. A French word, which means literally, word ...
PAROL LEASES . An agreement made verbally, not in writing, between the parties, ...
PAROLE international law. The agreement of persons who have been taken by ...
PARRICIDE civil law. One who murders his father; it is applied, by ...
PARSON eccles. law. One who has full possession of all the rights ...
PARTICEPS FRAUDIS . fraud. Both parties be in pari delicto is not allowed ...
PARTICULAR AVERAGE . This term, partipular average, has been condemned as not being ...
PARTICULAR AVFRMENT pleading. Vide Avermzent. ...
PARTICULAR CUSTOM A particular custom is one which only affects the inhabitants of ...
PARTICULAR ESTATE . An estate which is carved out of a larger ...
PARTICULARS practice. The items of which the accounts of one of the ...
PARTIES contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to ...
PARTIES TO A SUIT IN EQUITY . The person who seeks a remedy in chancery by suit, ...
PARTIES TO ACTIONS . Those persons who institute actions for the recovery of their ...
PARTITION conveyancing. A deed of partition is, one by which lands held ...
PARTITION ?states. The division which is made between several persons, of lands, ...
PARTNERS contracts. Persons who have united together and formed a partnership. 2. ...
PARTNERSHIP contracts. An agreement between two or more persons, for joining together ...
PARTOWNERS . Persons who hold real or personal property by the same ...
PARTTICULAR, LIEN contracts. A right which a person has to retain property in ...
PARTURITION . The act of giving birth to a child. ...
PARTURITION . Tho act of giving birth to a child ...
PARTUS . The child just before it is born, or immediately ...
PARTY practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either ...
PARTY WALL . A wall erected on the line between two adjoining estates, ...
PARTY-JURY . An ancient word used to signify a jury de ...
PASS . In the slave states this word signifies a certificate given ...
PASS practice. To be given, or entered; to proceed; as, let ...
PASS BOOK com. law. A book used by merchants with their customers, in ...
PASSAGE . A way over water; a voyage made over the ...
PASSAGE MONEY contracts. The sum claimable for the conveyance of a person with ...
PASSENGER cont. One who has taken a place. in a public conveyance, ...
PASSIVE com. law. All the sums of which one is a ...
PASSPORT, SEA BRIEF, or SEA LETTER maritime law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state ...
PASTURES pastures. The land on which beasts are fed; and by ...
PATENT constrction. That which is open or manifest. 2. ...
PATENT contracts. A patent for an invention is a giant made ...
PATENT FRENCH . The following points in relation to the patent laws of ...
PATENT LAWS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND . The patent laws of Great Britain and Ireland will be ...
PATENT, PRUSSIAN . This subject will be considered by taking a view of ...
PATENT, ROMAN . The Roman patents will be considered by taking a view ...
PATENT-OFFICE . An office bearing this name was established by law, and ...
PATENTEE . He to whom a patent has been granted. The ...
PATER . Father. A term used in making genealogical tables. ...
PATER FAMILLIAS civil law. One who was sui juris and consequently was not ...
PATERNA PATERNIS . This expression is used in the French law to signify ...
PATERNAL . That which belongs to the father or comes from ...
PATERNAL POWER . Patria potestas, The, authority lawfully exercised by parents, over their ...
PATERNAL PROPERTY . That which descends or comes from the father and other ...
PATERNITY The state or condition of a father. 2. ...
PATHOLOGY med. jur. The science or doctrine of diseases. In cases of ...
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