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contributions to the fund were part of the consideration Carter agreed to pay for the services of laborers on his construction jobs. The unpaid contributions were a part of the com

This surplus may be 'paid-in surplus,' as where the stock is issued at a price above par.

the term "paid leave" means, with respect to an employee, leave without loss of or reduction in— (A) pay; (B) leave to which the employee is otherwise entitled under law;

In this subsection, the term “paid lunch” means a reimbursable lunch served to students who are not certified to receive free or reduced price meals.

A 'paid-up addition' to the policy, by the application of a dividend, is the amount added to the face of the policy and purchased by the use of the dividend as a single premium. Fo

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

In French law. A contract of letting houses.

For purposes of this section the term "pain care" means the assessment, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or management of acute or chronic pain regardless of causation o

In this subsection, the term “Pain Consortium” means the Pain Consortium of the National Institutes of Health or a similar trans-National Institutes of Health coordinating entity d

See Peins Forte et Dure.

See "Peine Forte et Dure."

BILLS OF. See "Bill of Pains and Penalties."

See Bill of pains and penalties .

See Copyright; Print. Does not include a colored working model and design for carpets and rugs, of no value as a work of art. Paintings on porcelain, and decorated china, are subje

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

A practice of opposing legislators in agreeing not to vote on a measure, the absence of the vote of each, offsetting that of the other who has paired with him.

A legislative practice, said to have originated in the time of Cromwell, whereby legislators of opposite opinions agree not to vote on a given measure. Usually resorted to in order

or PAYS. A French word, signifying "country." In law, matter in pais is matter of fact, in opposition to matter of record; a trial per pais is a trial by the country, — that is, by

CONVEYANCES IN. In old English law. Ordinary conveyances between two or more persons in the country, i. e^ upon the land to be transferred.

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

Peace.

In English law. A court which had jurisdiction of all personal actions arising between any parties within twelve miles of Whitehall, not including the city of London. It was erecte

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

Openly.

Possessing royal privileges, See "County Palatine."

Pertaining to a palace, possessing royal privileges. Vi

Formerly 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. PALATIUM (Lat.) A palace.

A palace.

The privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of setting up folds for sheep in any fields within their manors, the better to manure them, and this not only wit

The term “paleontological resource” means any fossilized remains, traces, or imprints of organisms, preserved in or on the earth’s crust, that are of paleontological interest and t

The term “Palestinian Authority” means the interim Palestinian administrative organization that governs part of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip (or any successor Palestinia

A palfrey; a horse to travel on.

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

A marriage by the parents of bastard children whereat they formally adopted the children.

In old English ents afterwards intermarried. The children, together with the father and mother, stood under a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnized. It was in the nature

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

A State of course has power to impose liability upon those who, knowing that the public is relying upon an original manufacturer's reputation for quality and integrity, deceive the

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.

The act of June 28, 1902, authorized (section 1) the purchase of the French Panama Canal Company and (section 2) the acquisition from the Republic of Colombia of the perpetual cont

The term “Panama Canal Authority” means the entity created by the Republic of Panama to succeed the Panama Canal Commission as of the Canal Transfer Date.

“Panama Canal service” means— (i) service as an employee of the Canal Zone Government, the Panama Canal Company, or the Panama Canal Commission; or (ii) service at a permanent duty

The term “Panama TPA certification of origin” means the certification established under article 4.15 of the United States–Panama Trade Promotion Agreement that a good qualifies as

See Digests .

The term “pandemic-related revenue loss” means, with respect to an eligible entity— (A) except as provided in subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D), the gross receipts, as established us

The Code Justinian, or Digest, the chief compilation of the corpus juris civilis under Justinian.

A pimp; a procurer.

In old records. A brewer.

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

“Panel” means the Federal Service Impasses Panel described in section 7119(c) of this title ; / “Panel” means any of the Panels established by the Treaty; / The term “Panel” means

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

The term “panel-track supplement” means a supplement to an approved premarket application or premarket report under section 360e of this title that requests a significant change in

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

A practice in Massachusetts of vesting a business or certain real estate in a group of trustees, who manage it for the benefit of the beneficial owners; the ownership of the latter

A loaf; a loaf of bread.

In old English law. Pood that swine fed on in the woods, as mast of beech, acorns, &c. which some called pawns. Cowell. A duty for feeding in woods. Pleta, lib. 2, c. 41, § 31.

in nemoribus et in srivis, ut puta, de glandibus, etc. A pannagium is a pasture of hogs, in woods and forests, upon acorns, and so forth. 1 Bulst. 7.

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

The act of impaneling a jury.

A dramatic performance

See Papist; Roman Catholic Church; Papal Supremacy.

The supremacy which the Pope claimed not only over the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, but over all other Christian princes. The theory was that they stood to the Pope as feudal

The term “Papa Ola Lokahi” means an organization composed of— (i) E Ola Mau; (ii) the Office of Hawaiian Affairs of the State of Hawaii; (iii) Alu Like Inc.; (iv) the University of

A manufactured substance composed of fibres (whether vegetable or animal) adhering together in forms consisting of sheets of various sizes and of different thicknesses, used for wr

The term “paperback” means any book which has a flexible outer cover and the pages of which are affixed directly to such outer cover. Such term does not include a magazine.

A blockade proclaimed, but not maintained by a naval force sufficient to render it efl Fective. See "Blockade."

In appellate practice. A book or paper, usually printed, containing a transcript or an abstract, as may be required, of all the evidence and proceedings submitted to the appellate

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

In English law. Days on which special arguments are to take place. Tuesdays and Fridays in term time are paper days appointed by the court. Lee, Diet.; Archb. Prac. 101.

The engagements to pay money which are issued by governments and banks, and which pass as money. Pardesus, Dr. Com. note 9. Bank notes are generally considered as cash, and will an

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

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

The term does not mean newspapers or perhaps even include them within the meaning of a statute, the object of which is to prevent a jury from receiving any evidence, papers, or doc

A claim of title unfounded in fact, but founded on a conveyance or chain of conveyances showing an apparently good title.

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

A term formerly applied in Great Britain to Roman Catholics. By the act of 10 Geo. IV. c. 7, known as the Catholic Emancipation Act, Roman Catholics were restored in general to the

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;

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

Error in the computation of time.

The term "parachute payment" means any payment in the nature of compensation to (or for the benefit of) a disqualified individual if— (i) such payment is contingent on a

The tenure between parceners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday Book., PARAGE. Equality of blood, name, or dignity, but more espe

The term “paraprofessional”, also known as a “paraeducator”, includes an education assistant and instructional assistant.

Equality of rank or station.

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

Equality; a bride’s marriage portion.

A part or section of a statute, pleading, affidavit, etc., which contains one article; the sense of which is complete. Wharton. mount especifie, above specified. Plowd. 209a. That

Extending in the same direction, and in all parts equidistant; hav- See Cronin v. R. Co., 144 Mass. 254, 10 N. E. 833. In the specification of a patent the word was construed in it

The term “parallel financing” means financing provided by any combination of official development assistance, official export credits, and private commercial credit which is not in

Superior; above.

over all. The lord paramount: the chief lord, of whom the mesne lords held.

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

All contracts are inherently subject to the paramount power of the sovereign, and the exercise of such power is never understood to involve their violation, and is not within that

A norm of insanity, the principal characteristic of which is that the sufferer possesses insane delusions. 227 111. 192. PARAPH ERNA (Lat.) In civil law. Goods brought by wife to h

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

Same as Paraphernalia.

Belonging or pertaining to the parapherna.

Apparel and ornaments of a wife, suitable to her rank and degree. 2 Bl. Comm. 435.

The woman is accustomed to bring, besides her portion, (dot,) other property, which is called paraphernalia, and which is, or are, the property and things, whether (muebles) person

BIENS (Fr.) In French law. All the wife's property which is not subject to the regime dotal is called by this name, and of these articles the wife has the entire administration; bu

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