Black's Law Dictionary

An abbreviation for "page;" also for "Paschalis," (Easter term,) in the Year Books, and for numerous other words of which it is the initial.

In old English law. A toll for passage through another's land. The same as "pedage,"

L. Lat To pay.

Payment Mat. Par. A. D. 1248.

A measure of length containing two feet and a half, being the ordinary length of a step.

Lat. Let him be freed or discharged.

The act of making peace between two hostile or belligerent states; re-establishment of public tranqulllty.

Co. Litt. 161. Violence and injury are the things chiefly hostile to peace.

To put together in sorts with a fraudulent design. To pack a jury is to use unlawful, improper or deceitful means to have the Jury made up of persons favorably disposed to the part

A package means a bundle put up for transportation or commercial handling; a thing in form to become, as such, an article of merchandise or delivery from hand to band. A parcel is

The name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, (each bearing a different address,) collected from different persons by the immed

A horse load, which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds or two bundled and forty pounds weight. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 12; Cowell.

A bargain; compact; agreement. This word is used in writings on Roman law and on general Jurisprudence as the English form of the Latin "pactum," (which see.) —Nude pact. A transla

Agreements which are not contrary to the laws nor entered into with a fraudulent design are in all respecte to be observed. Cod. 2, 3, 39; Broom, Max. 698, 732.

Hob. 118. The stipulations of parties constitute the law of the contract.

7 Coke, 23. Private compacts cannot derogate from publlc right.

That contracts which are made against law or against good morals have no forco is a principle of undoubted law. Cod. 2, 3, 6.

Agreements founded upon an immoral consideration are not to be observed. Dig. 2, 14, 27, 4; Broom, Max. 732.

An agreement not to niienate incumbered (particularly mortgaged) property. This stipulation, sometimes found in mortgages made in Louisiana, and derived from the Spanish law, binds

Lat. In the civil law. A bargaining or agreeing of which pactum (the agreement itself) was the result. Calvin. It is used, however, as the synonym of "pactum."

Relating to or generating an agreement; by way of bargain or covenant.

In international law. Contracts between nations which are to be performed by a -single act, and of which execution is at an end at once. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 100.

Private contracts do not derogate from publlc law. Broom, Max. 695

Settled by covenant.

In the civil law. An agreement not to sue. A simple convention whereby a creditor promises the debtor that he will not enforce his clnim. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 542.

In the civil law. An agreement by which a creditor promised to pay a porlion of a debt difficult to recover to a person who undertook to recover it. Wharton.

Co. Litt 166. By special agreement things are allowed which are not otherwise permitted.

Lat In the civil law. A pact. An agreement or convention without specific name, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produco a civll obligation. Heinecc

In the civil law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his creditor a certain day or a certain time at which he promised to pay; or an agreement by which a person promises t

A pact or agreement binding the owner of property not to alienate it, intended to protect the interests of another; particularly an agreement by the mortgagor of real estate that h

A robber; a foot highwayman ; a foot-pad.

A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

'See Blockade.

In Spanish law. Payment. Las Partidas, pt 5, tit. 14, L 1. Pagamento, satisfaction.

A petty magistrate of a pagus or little district in the country.

A gold or silver coin, of several kinds and values, formerly current in India. It was valued, at the United States custom-house, at $1.94.

A ceunty. Jacob.

In life insurance. A policy on which no further payments are to be made in the way of annual premiums.

See Peins Forte et Dure.

It is held that colored Imitations of rugs and carpets and colored working designs, each of them valuable and designed by skilled persons and hand painted, but having no value as w

In the practice of legislative bodies, this is the name given to a species of negative proxies, by which twe members, who belong to opposite parties or are on opposite sides with r

Fr. The country; the neighborhood. A trial per pais signifies a trial by the country; that is, by jury. An assurance by matter in pais is an assurance transacted between two or mor

A conrt formerly ex-lsting in England. It was created by Charles I., and abolished in 1849. It was held in the borough of Southwark, and had Jurisdiction of all personal actions ar

A duty to lords of manors for exporting and importing vessels of wine at any of their ports. Jacob.

Lat. In the civil law. Openly; in the presence of many. Dig. 50, 16, 33.

Possessing royal privileges. See CouNTY Palatine.

Formerly were the court of common pleas at Lancaster, the chancery court of Lancaster, and the court of pleas at Durham, the second of which alone now exists. (See the respective t

Lat A palace. The emperor's house in Rome was so called from the Mons Palatinus on which it was built. Adams, Rom. Ant 613.

A palfrey; a horse to travel on.

In old English law. A merchant denizen ; one born within the English pale. Blount

In old English law. An ancient custom, where chlidren were born out of wedlock, and their parents afterwards intermarried. The children, together with the father and mother, stood

A name given to the English statute 19 & 20 Viet. c. 16, enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the contrai criminal court, to be tried in that c

A small book, hound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, and stitched. See U. S. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct. 756, 34 L. Ed. 117.

The name given in Pennsylvania to the publication, in pamphlet or book form, containing the acts passed by the state legislature at each of its biennial sessions.

A compilation of Roman law, consisting of selected passages from the writings of the most authoritative of the older jurists, methodically arranged, prepared by Tribonian with the

In old records. A brewer.

An ale-wlfe; a woman that both brewed and sold ale and beer.

The roll or slip of parchment returned by the sheriff in obedience to a venire facias, containing the names of the persons whom he has summoned to attend the court as jurymen. Beas

In the parlance of the English bar societies, is an attendant or domestic who waits at table and gives bread, (panis,) wine, and other necessary things to those who are dining. The

Lat. In old English law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 9.

A common of pannage is the right of fceding swine on mast and acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest. Elton, Commons, 25; Williams, Common, 168.

1 Bulst 7. A pannagium is a pasture of bogs, in woods and forests, upon acorns, and se forth.

Tbe act of impaneling a jury.

A dramatic performance in which gestures take the place of words. See 3 C. B. 871.

A written or printed document or instrument A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, in the phrase "papers in the case" and in "papers on appeal." Any writi

The state of a line of coast proclaimed to be under blockade in time of war, when the naval force on watch is not sufficient to repel a real attempt to enter.

Credit given on the security of any written obligation purporting to represent property.

In English law. Certain days in term-time appointed by the courts for hearings or arguments in the cases set down in the various specini papers.

Bills drawn by a government against its own credit, engaging to pay money, but which do not profess to be immediately convertible into specie, and which are put into compulsory cir

In English law. An ancient office in the paiaee of Whitehall, uffiere all the public writings, matters of state and council, proclamations, letters, intelligences, negotiations of

In practice. A printed collection or abstract, in methodical order, of the pleadings, evidence, exhibits, and proceedings in a cause, or whatever else may be necessary to a full un

A title to land evidenced by a conveyance or chain of conveyances; the term generally implying that such title, while it has color or plausibility, is without substantial validity.

One who adheres to the communion of the Church of Rome. The word seems to be considered by the Roman Catholica themselves as a nickname of reproach, originating in their maintainin

In commercial law. Equal; equality. An equality subsisting betwcen the nominal or face value of a bill of exchange, share of stock, etc., and its actual selling value. When the val

Error in the computation of time.

The tenure between parceners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday.

An equality of blood or dignity, but more especially of land, in the partition of an inheritance betwcen co-heirs; more properly, however, an equality of condition among nobles, or

A part or section of a statute, pleading, affidavit, etc., which contains one article, the sense of which is complete. McClellan v. Hein, 56 Neb. 600, 77 N. W. 120; Hill v. Fairhav

For two lines of street railway to be "parallel," within the meaning of a statute, It may not be necessary that the two lines shouid be parallel for the whole length of each or eit

Above; upwards. That which ls superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee ot lands, tenements or hereditaments, as distinguished from the mesne (or intermediate) lord.

An equitable right or claim which is prior, superior, or preferable to that with which it is compared.

In the civil law. Goods brought by wife to husband over and abave her dowry.

In the civil law. The separate property of a married woman, other than that which is included in her dowry, or dos. The separate property of the wlfe is divided into dotal and extr

See Paraphernalia.

Fr. In French law. All the wife's property which is not subject to the r6gime dotal Is called by this name; and of these articles the wife has the entire administration; but she ma

The sixth day of the last week in Lent, particularly called "Good Friday." In English law, it ls a dies non juridicus.

In the civll law. A conventicle or uniawful meeting.

In the civll law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents. Co.d. 1, 17, 1 12.

Lat. I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant in readiness to he brought into court.

Lat He is ready to verify. The Latin form for concluding a pleading with a verification, <9v )

Inferior; subordinate. Tenant paravail signified the lowest tenant of land, being the tenant of a mesne lord. He was se called because he was supposed to make "avail" or profit of

In the law of real property parcel signifies a part or portion of land. As used of chattels, it signifies a small package or bundle. See State v. Jordan, 36 Fla. 1, 17 South. 742;

A parcel of land.

Two officers in the exchequer who formerly made the parcels or items of the escheators' accounts, wherein they charged them with everything they had levied for the king during the

A description of property, formerly set forth in a conveyance, together with the boundaries thereof, in order to its easy identification.

An account of the items composing a parcel or package of goods, transmitted with them to the purchaser.

The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate.

A joint heir; one who, with others, holds an estate in co-parcenary, (q. v.)

Sheep-skins dressed for writing, so called from Pergamus, Asia Minor, where they were invented. Used for deeds, and used for writs of summons in England previous to the judicature

Pound-breach; also the name of an old English writ against one chargeable with pound-breach.