Pares

Lat A person's peers or equals; as the Jury for the trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties litigant; and, as the lord's vassals judged each other in the lord's courts, so the sovereign's vassals or the lords themselves, judged each other in the sovereign's courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349.

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

— Pares regni. Peers of the realm. Spelman.

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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.

a man’s equals; his peers, ' 466, ch. 10, s. 1. (q. v-); 3 Bl. Com. 349. PARRICIDE, a term used in the