Pars
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A part. Also, a party, either to an agreement or to an action or other legal proceeding.
Pars enitia
The eldest part. The share of the eldest on a partition between coparceners. See Enitia Pars. Pars rationabilis. A reasonable part. law gave to his wife or to his heirs upon his decease. Pars rationabilis is the ancient division of a man's goods into three equal parts, of which one went to his heirs or lineal descendants, another to his wife, and the third was at his own disposal; or, if he died without a wife, he might then dispose of one moiety, and the other went to his children, and so e converse; but if he died without either wife or issue, the whole was at his own disposal. The shares of the wife and children were called their reasonable parts; and the writ de rationa Uli parte bonorum was given to recover them. 'Phis law has been altered by imperceptible degrees, and the deceased may now by will bequeath the whole of his goods and chattels.
Wharton.
Pars viscerum matris. Part of the mother's bowels; an unborn child.
Parte inaudita
One side being unheard. Spoken of a cause in which one party only has had a hearing; or of making a decree without a hearing. Parte integrante sublata, to Uitur totam. Taking away an integral part destroys the whole.
Parte nou comparente
The party (or one party) not having appeared. The condition of a, cause called, in Anglo- American law, default.
Partes finis nihil habuerunt
The parties to the fine had no estate.