Partus

/. Birth; offspring. Partus noscit matrera quam genitorem bed knows not his mother more such that non-enforcement of \. Ex parte. Parte qnacunqne any integral part being taken old English law. The parties to estate which could be conveyed stranger. a degree of damage not amounta part. Divisible; divisible among several,a partaker or sharer; one associate o'r accomplice. Partiparticipator or accomplice in to contracts and offenses. a parcener. Parcel. thmg, or portion of a thing. Parinsurance, any expense or damage a particular concern, and which that concern alone. Particular estate in remainder. Particular goods or chattels. Particular estate. division, — not always into* parts; the dividing of an estate; the division of an estate in tenancy in common or coor allotments, according to the effected by bill in equity, by prostatute, or by conveyances inter contract of two or more competent labor and skill, or some or all business, and to divide the profit ex legitime thoro non certins suum: the offspring of a lawful certainly than his father. Partus belongs to the owner of the mother, or follows the condition of the mother. A maxim of the civil law, adopted in the law of England in regard to anima,ls only, but in American law as to slaves also.

/. Birth, offspring. follows the womb privileged for tie keeping of beasts speech. written, not under seal. Parol or otherwise, but not under seal v. Age-prier. Parola de enitia: v. Emtia. Pars ejusdem transaction. Pars fundi: part of duty of the judge. Pars ratiobonorum. Imparsonee, Uecior. appurtenances.: one side unheard, ex parte. (the parties to the fine had nothto a fine of land, set up in an by a stranger. to the crime, an aocomphoe.

Offspring. According to Bouvier, it is sometimes used in the limited sense of a child at its birth. Partus sequitur veutrem. The offspring follows the womb. The application of this maxim, which is taken from the civil law, is in determining the title; and the meaning is, that, in the absence of special circumstances to indicate a different ownership, the owner of the mother is deemed the owner of her increase; the brood belongs, presumably, to the owner of the fowl; the foal, to the owner of the mare; the litter, to the owner of the dam. While slavery prevailed in the southern states, the rule the mother slave, the child took the mother's condition, and belonged to her owner. At the present day, the rule has no application, either in England or the United States, to human beings.