Panier — Law Dictionary

Panier

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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 phrase was 4n familiar use among the knights templar, and from them has been handed down to the learned societies of the inner and middle temples, who at the present day occupy the halls and buildings once belonging to that distinguished order, and who have retained a few of their customs and phrases. Brown.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

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 phrase was in familiar use amongst the knights templars, and from them has been handed down to the learned societies of the Inner and Middle Temples, who at the present day occupy the halls and buildings once belonging to that distinguished order, and who have retained a few of their customs and phrases. copy, or file of the pleadings and written proceedings in a cause, customarily prepared for the use of the judges, upon the hearing of an argument. The term seems to comprehend the various kinds known as appeal-book, demurrer-book, motion-papers, transscript of the record, and the like.