A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Improperly and corruptly to select a jury sworn and impaneled to try a case.

An agreement v. Nude pact. Pacta privata non derogant juri cominuni, I. Private agreements cannot derogate from common right (or law). In the dvil law. Pacta conventa, quae neque c

I. In the civil law. A bargaining or agreeing, of which pactum the agreement itself was the result

I. In the civil law. A pact; an agreement or convention without specific name, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Pactum c

1. 1. In old English law. To pay. Paiavit: (he) paid.

pays, I. fr. In old English, law. Country: the country; a jury, as coming from the country or neighborhood.

In English lav?. A court of legal jurisdiction, held in the borough of Southwark. v. Marshalsea.

Pertaining to a palace; having royal privilegea

or Digests. A connpilation of Roman law in fifty books, published in the year 533. It consists of selections from the writings of the old jurists, made under the direction of Justi

pauell, pannel. A list of the names of jurors returned by the sheriff for the trial of a cause; the body of jurors summoned and in attendance upon court, including jurors returned

denelage. Dane law; the Danish law; a system of laws introduced into England by the Danes, and principally maintained in some of the midland counties, and also on the eastern coast

Bills of exchange and promissory notes. Paper title: a title witnessed by writing, but without real legal foundation. In English law. Paper book: a transcript of the record prepare

I. In the ciml law. Pupillar substitution; the substitution of an heir to a pupil or infant under puberty. '

I. fr. By. Par poy et par poy: by little and little.

I. Equal; like. Par delictum: equal guilt Par in parem imperium non habet: an equal has no command over his equal.

U fr. In old English law. Equality of condition, blood or dignity; equality of lands in the partition of an inheritance.

In English law. Above; over; overall; upwards. Applied to the supreme lord of a fee, between whom and the tenant, or tenant paravail, there was an intermediate or mesne lord. Param

Parapherna, gr.-l. In English law. Movable goods which a widow is allowed to have besides her dower, consisting of her apparel and ornaments, suitable to her station. In the Roman

I He is prepared to verify.

gr.-l In the civil law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents.

I I have him in readiness; a return to a capias ad respondendum, meaning that the sheriff has taken the defendant and has him ready to bring into court

peraraile, Paraval, I. fr. In English law. Below; at the bottom. Pararal les poantz: below the bridges.

Piece; a piece of land not of great extent

LI In old English law. A small piece; a parcel or bundle.

Forgiveness; remission; an act of grace by which an offender is released from the consequences of his offense, so far as release is practicable and within the reach of the pardonin

2. 2. In old English law. To pardon. Pardonavit: (he) pardoned.

I I. In old English law. Pardon; a pardon.

parcliemyn, pargemin, J./r. Parchment; a parchment; a manuscript on parchment.

1. 1. In old English law. A pound; a place for confining cattle found doing damage; a park; an enclosed place for the preservation of deer.

I. A parent; a father or mother. Parens patriae: parent of the country, the sovereign, — in England the king, in the United States the state. In old English and feudal law. A relat

i I. In old English law. Equals; peers; equals in rank or dignity, the freeholders of a neighborhood. Pares curisB: peers of the court; a lord's tenants who sat in his court to try

Ul. In old Scots law. To make equal. Pariare ratlones: to square accounts.

L Where the opinions are equal [where the court is equally divided] the defendant is acquitted.

I. Of equal guilt Pari materia: of the same matter; on the same subject. Pari passu: in equal degree: by equal steps.

I. In the civil law. A common wall; a party wall.

or parlinge hill. In old English law. A hill wliere courts

I. I In old English law. Parliament; the highest court of the realm. Faliamentnni indoctnm: unlearned or lack-learning parliament; a name given to a parliament held at Coventry in

The supreme legislative assembly of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of the king or queen, and the three estates of the realm, viz. the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, an

I. l, Paroche, parocke, I. fr. In old Englinh law. A parish. Parochia est locus in quo degit popnlns alicujus ecclesise: a parish is the place in which the people of any churcli re

parole, parolle, I. fr. A word; a plaint, plea or pleading. Paroles, parolx: words. Paroles del bien estre: words of well being; words of form; words advisable to be used for great

Oral; that which is given, or done by word of mouth; not expressed by deed or specialty. Parol contract: a verbal contract; any contract n^ of record, nor under seal, whether writt

paricidinm, ?. In tfie civil law. Parricide; the murder of a parent

Lat. In old English law. A part; a party. Pars actrix: a party plaintiff. Pars ejusdem negotii: a part of the same transaction. Pars enitia: the eldest's part or share; the privile

In English law. A parish priest; one that has full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. Parson imparsonee: a clerk or parson in full possession of a benefice.

I. I. In old English law. Parson; a parson.

In Scots law. Formal words corresponding with appurtenances. '— act done in performance of a contract the contract would be a fraud.

In the law of insurance, ing to a total loss; the total loss of

In old English law. divisible among all the sons.

p2. participes, 2. A part-taker; jointly interested with another; an ceps criuiinis, in criiniue: a sharer, [of] crime, — applied to parties both In old English law. A. part owner;

Pertainirtg to a distinct ticular average: in the law of short of a total loss, which regards is to be borne by the proprietors of estate: an estate precedent to an lien: a specifi

v. Party.

L In the civil law. Partition, halves.

A dividing or severing into in which several are jointly interested lands held by several, in joint-tenancy, parcenary, into separate parts, shares respective interests of the part

I. I. In old English law.

A member of a partnership. Partnership or copartnership. A persons, to place their money, effects, of them, in lawful commerce or and bear the loss in certain proportions.

/. Birth; offspring. Partus noscit matrera quam genitorem bed knows not his mother more such that non-enforcement of \. Ex parte. Parte qnacunqne any integral part being taken old

A person concerned upon one side or another in any affair, business, contract or proceeding, as vendor or vendee, bailor or bailee, obligor or obligee, grantor or grantee, mortgago

I. In old Englinh law. Petty treason. Parva serjantia: petty serjeanty.

/. L In old English law. Little cape; => writ which lay on a tenant's default after appearance in a real action. More commonly called petit cape.

To convey or transfer, as an estate; to put off in payment or exchange, as money; to decide upon, to pronounce, as upon evidence or a case; to approve, as an account; to continue t

I. I. In old English law. Passage; a passing over sea; a sum paid for being transported over sea, or over a river.

A person who travels in a public conveyance under a contract express or implied for the payment of fare, or for that which the carrier accepts as an equivalent

I. fr. In old English law. To pass; to proceed in order of law.

A permission to leave a harbor, — a document carried by a permission granted in time of war for the removal of persons or effects from a hostile country; a warrant of protection an

I. I. In old English law. Pasture: a feeding; a right to feed animals; pasture, including the ground itself.

I. I. In old English law. Know all men by these presents; words with which letters of attorney and other instruments commenced.

letters patent. A grant of some privilege, property or authority, made by the state or sovereign to one or more individuals; a grant by the state of the exclusive' privilege of mak

Open; obvious; apparent; open to inspection. Patent ambignity: an open ambiguity; one which appears on the face of an insti'ument. Patent writ: an open writ,; a writ not closed or

I. In the civil law. A father; the father. Pater est qnem nnptiee demonstrant: he is the father whom the nuptials point out, or whom marriage indicates. Pater patria;; father of th

I. Paternal estates [go to the] heirs on the father's sida V. Materna.. '

I. In old English law. Sufferance; permission, v. Longa patientia, etc.

I. A country; one's country. In old English law. A district or neighborhood, within a county; the country; a neighborhood; a hundred; a jury. Patria laboribns •et expensls non debe

In English ecclesiastical law. He who has the gilt of a benefice, or the right of presentation to a benefice.

/. In the. Roman law. A person protector to anotlier wlio was called his cate; a patron.

In New York law, the proprietor privileges; the lord of a manor.

I. fr. To touch; to lay the hand touch the book.

I A poor person; one who receives laws providing for support of the poor; of defraying the expenses of a suit v. In

To deliver to another in pledge, or as

A bailment of goods to a creditor, as engagement; a pledge.

A person whose business it is personal property received in pledge.

The person to whom a pawn is made.

The person who pawns or pledges.

I. In old English law. Peace; the peace and quiet, otherwise called the king's peace, conservator of the peace; freedom from of a member of a legislative assembly. the church; a pa

To discharge an obligation by a terms or requirements, whether in money,

Money, other property or services obligation.

The person to whom payment is who pays.

The delivery by debtor to creditor debt, whether money, merchandise or

pais, I. fr. In old English law. The or neighborhood.

I In the civil law. A paternal or hereditary estate; property; fortune; private, exclusive or individual property; property in general. Patrimonii mnniis: ati office of fortune; on

A fault; a sin. Peccatum peccato addit, qui culpae quam facit patrocinium defensionis adjungit: he adds sin to sin, who joins to the fault which he has committed the protection of

Quiet, orderly behavior; the quiet, zens towards one another, and towards Breach; Commission; Justice. In old English law. The concord in a fine and the church: that rest which the

1. 1. In old English law. A piece. Pecia moneta): a piece of money. Pecia terrse: a piece of land.

I. In the Roman law. A little money or property; a private or separate property; a limited amount of money or property, which a son or servant was allowed to have, separate from th

I In the civil law. Ihe ofifense of stealing or embezzling the public money.

In English ecclesiastical law. An exempt jurisdiction; a parish exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary, and subject to the metropolitan only.

I Originally and radically, property in cattle, or cattle themselves. In old English law. Pecunia numerata: counted money f money paid by count or tala In the civil law. Property i

Monetary; pertaining to money. Pecuniary legacy: a legacy of a sum of money; a gift of a sum of money by will. In English ecclesiastical law. Pecuniary causes: causes arising from

I. In the Moman law. On, or at the foot; occupying a low position; a term applied to the judices appointed by the praetor to determine causes.

1. 1. In civil and old English law. To put or place the foot; the taking possession of lands by standing on or walking over them, or by merely placing the foot on the ground.

I. In old English and Scots law. Dusty- foot; a term applied to itinerant merchants, chapmen or peddlers, who attended fairs. V. Piedpoudre.