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Pares

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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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 their fellow tenant; the barons who sat in the king's courts for the trial of their peers. Pares de vieineto: the freeholders of the neighborhood; the venue. Pares regni: peers of the realm.