Pays
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Country.
Trial per pays, trial by jury (the country). See "Pais." PEACE (Law Fr, peas,' pees; hat. pax). Quiet,_ orderly behavior; the quiet, orderly behavior of the citizens or subjects of a community towards one another, and towards the government, which is said to be broken by acts of a certain kind. See "Breach of Peace." Defined in the old books, "a quiet and harmless behavior toward the king and his people." Lambard, Eiren, lib.
1, c. 2; Cowell.