Parquet

In French Law. The magistrates who are charged with the conduct of proceedings in criminal cases and misdemeanors. PARRICIDE (from Lat. pater, father, caedcrc, to slay). In the Civil Law. One who murders his father. One who mimlers his mother, his brother, his sister, or his children. Merlin, Rep. Parricide; Dig. 48. 9. 1. 3, 4. This offence Is defined almost in the same words in the penal code of China. Penal Laws of China, b. I, s. 2, § 4. The criminal was punished by being scourged, and afterwards sewed in a sort of sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and then thrown into the sea or into a river; or, if there were no water, ho was thrown in this manner to wild beasts. Dig. 48. 9. 9; Code 9, 17. 1, 1. 4, 18, 6; Brown, Civ. Law 423. By the laws of France, parricide is the crime of him who murders his father or mother, whether was there punished by the criminal's being taken to the place of execution without any other garment than his shirt, barefooted, and with his head covered with a black veil. He was then exposed on the scaffold, while an officer of the court read his sentence to tho spectators; his right hand was then cut off, and he was immediately put to death. Id. art. 13. The common law does not define this crime, and makes no difference between its punishment and the punishment of murder; 1 Hale, PI. Cr. 380; Prin. Penal Law, c. 18, § 8, p. 243; Dalloz, Diet. Homicide, § 3. PARS ENITIA (Lat.). In Old English Law. Tho share of the oldest daughter where lands were parted between daughters by lot, she having her first choice after the division of the inheritance. Co. Litt. 100 b; Gian v. lib. 7, c. 3; Flcta, lib. 5, c. 10, § In divisionem. PARS RATI 0 N ABI L IS (Lat. reasonable part). That part of a mail’s goods which tho law gave to his wife and children. 2 Bla. Com. 492; Magn. Cart.; 9 lien. III. c. 18; 2 Steph. Com., 11th ed. 194. See Dead Man’s Part.