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In French Law. All the property of the wife which is not subject to the regime dotal. PARATITLA (Lat.). In Civil Law. An abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of the Code

The term “paraplegia” means the complete and irreversible paralysis of both lower limbs.

The term “paraprofessional” has the meaning given the term in section 7801 of this title . / The term “paraprofessional” means an individual who is employed in a preschool, element

The term “paraprofessional child and adolescent mental health worker” means an individual who is not a mental or behavioral health service professional, but who works at the first

The sixth day of the last week in Lent, particularly called "Good Friday." In English law, it ls a dies non juridicus.

In the civil law, a conventicle or unlawful meeting. PARATITLA (Lat.) In civil law. An abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of the Code or Digest. PARATUM HABEO (Lat. I

I He is prepared to verify.

In the civll law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents. Co.d. 1, 17, 1 12.

I have him ready.

In old pleading. This he is ready to verify.

Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail because it is presumed he has the avail

A part of the estate. 1 Comyn, Dig. "Abatement" (H 51), "Grant" (E 10). To parcel is to divide an estate. Bac. Abr. "Conditions" (0). The word "parcel" is not a sujfficient descrip

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

A parcel of land.

A parcel of land.

Two ofacers in the exechequer who formerly made the parcels or items of the escheators' accounts, wherein they charged them with everything they had levied for the sovereign's use

The term “parcel number 1” means the area, encompassing approximately 11,317 acres, bounded on the south by the Montana-Wyoming border, on the east by the 107th meridian, on the no

The term “parcel number 2” means the area, encompassing approximately 12,964 acres, bounded on the south by the extension to the west of the southern boundary of the Northern Cheye

The term “parcel number 3” means the area, encompassing approximately 2,469 acres, bounded on the south by the extension to the west of the northern boundary of the Northern Cheyen

The term “parcel number 4” means the area, encompassing approximately 9,415 acres, bounded on the south by the northern boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation, on the east by the

“parcel of highly fractionated Indian land” means a parcel of land that the Secretary, pursuant to authority under a provision of this chapter, determines to have, as evidenced by

It was provided for by act of August 21, 1912 (in effect January 1, 1913). It includes in fourth-class mail matter farm and factory products and all other mail matter not included

BILL OF. An account of the items composing a parcel or package of goods, transmitted with them to the purchaser.

An account of the items composing a parcel or package of goods, transmitted with them to the purchaser.

The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners, before the common inheritance has been divided. See "Coparcenary, Estates in."

A joint heir; one who, with others, holds an estate in co-parcenary, (q. v.)

The daughters of a man or woman seised of lands and tenements in fee simple or fee tail, on whom, after the death of such ancestor, such lands and tenements descend, and they enter

A document written on parchment.

Pound breach.

A park; a cattle pound.

Equal wrong.

A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inf

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

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

In old English law. Persons who carried about the pope's indulgences, and sold tljem to any who would buy them.

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

A parent. This was the original and proper sense of the word. In the civil law, any relative in the direct ascending line, either male or female. PARENS EST NOMEN GENERALE AD omne

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

Parens is a general name for every sort of relationship.

Parent of the country. In England, the king. In the United States, the state, as a sovereign, is the parens patnœ. "Parens" est nomen generale ad omne genus cognationis. Co. Litt.

literally "parent of the country."

both parents of the pregnant woman if they are both living, one parent of the pregnant woman if only one is living or if the second one cannot be located through reasonably diligen

Kindred in the direct ascending line. See 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1955.

The term “parental involvement” means the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities

to consider a parent disqualified to take a voluntary deed from his child, without consideration, on account of their relationship; is assuming a principle at war with all filial a

“parent corporation” has the meaning given such term by section 424(e). / For purposes of this part, the term “parent corporation” means any corporation (other than the employer co

The sum of those persons who trace descent from one ancestor. 2 Poll. & Maitl. 296. “By a person’s parentela is meant the sum of those persons who trace

Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the

One who murders a parent; also the crime so committed.

The District Court's findings sharply reveal that William Baumet long before his son's death had 'abandoned his son' and ceased to be a parent in truth and fact. He may not now ret

the term “Parent Locator Service” means the service established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 653 of title 42 ; / the term “Parent Locator Service” me

The term “parent mentor” means an individual who— (A) is a parent or guardian of at least one child who is an eligible child under this subchapter or subchapter XIX; and (B) is tra

The term “parent organization” has the meaning given the term in section 1471(g) of this title . / In this section, the term "parent organization" means a private nonprof

either the singular or plural of the word 'parent' "); see also "ante," at 437, n. 23, as "both parents" is Arkansas, and that statute provides for numerous exceptions to the two-p

Congress must have meant by the term 'parent' an individual who owed to the child a state-imposed legal duty of support

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “parent-subsidiary controlled group” means any controlled group of corporations as defined in section 1563(a)(1), except that— (i) “more

The term “parent training and information center” means a center assisted under section 1471 or 1472 of this title.

It is due of parents to support children, even bastards.

One work executed in the intervals of another; a subordinate task. Particularly, the name of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe.

Peers; equals.

Peers of the court. Vassals who were bound to attend the lord's court.

Peers of the court.

A progressive disease, manifesting itself at first by a slight loss of memory, dropping of words or carelessness as to dress or person, these conditions becoming more marked as the

The peers of the realm.

Similar things unite with similar. PARIBUS SENTENTIIS REUS ABSOLvitur. When opinions are equal, a defendant is acquitted. 4 Inst. 64.

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

A defendant is acquitted by equal opinions, i. e., for and against.

With equal right.

In equal wrong.

In Spanish law. Relations. White, New Recop. bk. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, § 2.

In the civil law. A wall. Dig. 50. 16. 157.

In the civil law. A common wall; a party wall. Dig. 29. 2. 89.

Of the same matter or subject.

“parimutuel” means any system whereby wagers with respect to the outcome of a horserace are placed with, or in, a wagering pool conducted by a person licensed or otherwise permitte

An equal has no dominion over an equal.

Of the same grade.

A name given in Scotland to certain bonds secured upon lands which share an equal benefit of the security. Where several securities are created over the same lands by separate bond

For like reason.

A district of country, of different extents. In Ecclesiastical Law. The territory committed to the charge of a parson, or vicar, or other minister. Ayliffe, Par. 404; 2 Bl. Comm. 1

The children of poor persons in England who are bound by the overseers of the parish, with the consent of two justices. 2 Steph. Comm. 230.

A pauper child.

This expression has various significations. It is applied sometimes to a select body of Christians, forming a local spiritual association, and sometimes to the building in which th

In English Law. An officer, in former times often in holy orders, in church to the minister. By common law he has a freehold in his office, but it seems now to be falling into desu

A petty constable exercising his functions within a given parish. Mozley & W.

In Louisiana. A court established in each parish, having general probate jurisdiction, and a limited civil jurisdiction.

An ecclesiastical division of an English parish.

in an accurate and legal sense, the parishioners are not the cestuis que trust, for they have, individually, no right or title to the property. It is the property of the parish, in

Church wardens, overseers, and constables.

The parson; a minister who holds a parish as a benefice.

A beadle; a summoner to the courts of civil law.

IDEM jus. Of things equal, the reason is the same, and the same is the law. PARIUM JUDICIUM (Lat. the decision of equals). The right of trial by one's peers, i- e., by jury in the

In similar matters, the reason is the same, the law the same.

The judgment of one’s peers, i. e., by a jury of one’s peers.

The term “park” means Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, as authorized and established by the Act of June 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 262; 16 U.S.C. 261 et seq.). / “Park” means the W

To be quit of inclosing a park, or any part thereof. PARLE HILL (also called Parting Hill). A hill where courts were held in old times. Cowell.

A park-keeper.

In municipal law and administration. A strip of land, lying either in the middle of the street or in the space between the building line and the sidewalk or between the sidewalk an

The term “parking surcharge regulation” means a regulation imposing or requiring the imposition of any tax, surcharge, fee, or other charge on parking spaces, or any other area use

In this section, the term “Parkinson’s” means— (1) Parkinson’s disease; and (2) all other neurodegenerative Parkinsonisms, including multiple system atrophy, corticobasal degenerat

“Park system resource” means any living or non-living resource that is located within the boundaries of a unit of the National Park System, except for resources owned by a non-Fede