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Pars Pro Toto

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Part for the whole; the name of a part used to represent the whole; as the roof for the house, ten spears for ten armed men, etc. PARS RATIONABiLIS (Lat. reasonable part). That part of a man's goods which the law gave to his wife and children. 2 Bl. Comm. 492; Magna Charta; 9 Hen. III. c. 18; 2 Steph. Comm. 228, 254.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A part for the whole.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Part for the whole; the name of a part used to represent the whole; as the roof for the house, ten spears for ten armed men, etc.

Defined under Pars in Black's Law Dictionary.