In Pais
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
This phrase, a8 applied to a legal transaction, primarily means that it has taken place without legal proceedings. Thus a widow was said Lo make a request in pais for her dower when she simply applied to the heir without issuing a writ. (Co. Litt. 326.) So conveyances are divided into those by matter of record and those by matter in pais. In some cases, however, “mat ters in pais” are opposed not only to “mat. ters of record,” but aiso to “matters in writing,” t. e., deeds, a3 where estoppel by deed is distinguished from estoppel by matter in pats. (Id. 352a.) Sweet.