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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In common law. Equal. It is used to denote a state of equality or equal value. An equality of actual with nominal value.
9 Baxt. (Tenn.) 410, 99 Miss. 859; 35 L. R. A. (N. S.) 791; 156 N. Y. 363, 50 N. E. 973.
Bills of exchange, stocks, and the like, are at par when they sell for their nomi- PAR DELICTUM (Lat.) Equal guilt. "This is not a case of par delictum. It is oppression on one side, and submission on the other. It never can be predicated as par delictum when one holds the rod and the other bows to it."
6 Maule & S. 165,
See In Pari Delicto.
PAR IN PAREM IMPERIUM NON HAbet. An equal has no power over an equal.
Jenk. Cent. Cas. 174.
Example, one of two judges of the same court cannot commit the other for contempt.