Pedlars

Persons who travel about the country with merchandise for the purpose of selling it. One is a pedlar who carries his goods about the country for sale by public conveyance. 4 Barn. & A. 510. One who solicits orders by sample for one who ships the same from an established place of business is not a pedlar. 34 Kan. 434. Persons, except those peddling newspapers. Bibles, or religious tracts, who sell, or offer to sell, at retail, goods, wares, or other commodities, traveling from place to place, in the street, or through different parts of the country. Act Cong. July 1, 1862. See "Peddler." PEERS (Lat. pares). The vassals of a lord; the freeholders of a neighborhood, before whom livery of seisin was to be made, and before whom, as the jury of the county, trials were had. 2 Bl. Comm. 316. Trial by a man's peers or equals is one of the rights reserved by Magna Charta. 4 Bl. Comm. 349. These vassals were called pares curiae (q. v.) 1 Washb. Real Prop. 23. One's equals in rank and condition. The nobility of England, who, though of different ranks, viz., dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons, yet are equal in their privilege of sitting and voting in the house of lords; hence they are called "peers of the realm." They are created by writ summoning them to attend the house of lords by the title intended to be given, or by letters patent directly conis more certain. See Sullivan, Lect. 19a; 1 Wooddeson, Lect. 37. Peers are tried by their peers in cases of treason, felony, and misprision of the same. In cases of treason, felony, and breach of the peace, they have no privilege from arrest. 1 Bl. Comm. 401*, note 11. Bishops who sit in parliament are peers; but the word "spiritual" is generally added: e. g., "lords temporal and spiritual." 1 Bl. Comm. 401*, note 12.

are persons who travel about the country with merchandise, for the purpose of selling it. They are obliged under the laws of perhaps all the states to take out licenses; and to conform to the regulations which those laws establish.