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An abbreviation for "page;" also for "Paschalis," (Easter term,) in the Year Books, and for numerous other words of which it is the initial.

A toll for passage througli another's land.

s The supreme legisla- ' ture of Great Britain, consisting of the queen, or king, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons. Assembles, at the queen's summons, at least onc

That which is brought forth, or borne: ofifspring, young. Partus sequitur patr'em. The offspring follows the father, — the condition of the father. Partus sequitur ventrem. The off

In old records. To pay.

A restitution anciently made by a hundred or county for any wrong done by one that was within the same. Lambard, Arch. 125.

A measure of length, containing two feet and a half. The geometrical pace is five feet long. The common pace is the length of a step; the geometrical is the length of two steps, or

Let him be released.

Lat. Let him be freed or discharged.

To make, do, perform. Compare Fieri. Pac simile. Made like in appe Urance; a copy. Said of counterfeits, design^, signatures, trademarks, qQ.^. Paeias. That you make or cause to be

The act of making peace between two hostile or belligerent states; re-establishment of public tranqulllty.

A means of coercion short of war, usually adopted by the joint action of several nations. An instance of it occurred when Great Britain and Germany united to prevent the slave trat

A pacifist, in the general sense of the word, is one who seeks to maintain peace and to abolish war. But the word is also used and understood to mean one who refuses or is unwillin

VIS et injuria. Force and wrong are especially contrary to peace. Co. Litt. 161. PACIFICATION (Lat. pax, peace, facere, to' make J. The act of making peace between two countries wh

Violence and injury are the greatest opponents of peace.

To deceive by false appearances; to counterfeit; to delude; as, packing a jury. See "Jury;" Bac. Abr. "Juries" (M); 12 Conn. 262.

A bundle or bale made up for transporation. See 124 Mo. 436, 46 Am. St. Rep. 4o7, 27 S. W. 1102.

Improperly and corruptly to select a jury sworn and impaneled to try a case.

The name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, each bearing a different address, collefted from different persons by the immedia

any person canning fish or preserving fish by the common methods of drying, salting, pickling or smoking.

In United States postal laws, a written communication of four or more sheets. See 21 Ann. Cas. (U. S.) 699, 177 Fed. 352, 35 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1034, 101 C. C. A. 328.

the practice of filling a district with a supermajority of a given group or party.

The use of improper or corrupt means in selecting a jury. See 12 Conn. 262.

supplies that in fact are intended to be used in a packing house, and not supplies like those used in packing houses.

A horse load, which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds or two bundled and forty pounds weight. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 12; Cowell.

In civil law. An agreement made by two or more persons on the same subject, in order to form some engagement, or to dissolve or modify one already made. Conventio est duorum in ide

QUAE NEQUE contra leges, neque dolo male inlta sunt, omni modo observanda sunt. Contracts Code, 2. 3. 29; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 624.

Agreements which are neither contrary to the laws nor entered into fraudulently should in every manner be observed.

Agreements which are not contrary to the laws nor entered into with a fraudulent design are in all respecte to be observed. Cod. 2, 3, 39; Broom, Max. 698, 732.

Agreements give the law to the contract. Halk. Max. 118. PACTA PRIVATA JURI PUBLICO DErogare non possunt. Private contracts cannot derogate from the public law. 7 Coke, 23. PACTA Q

Hob. 118. The stipulations of parties constitute the law of the contract.

The agreements give the law to the contract.

Private agreements cannot derogate from public right.

Private agreements do not derogate from common right.

It is unquestionably the law that agreements which are made contrary to the laws and the statutes or against good morals have no force.

That contracts which are made against law or against good morals have no forco is a principle of undoubted law. Cod. 2, 3, 6.

Agreements which contain an immoral consideration are not to be kept. See 2 Pet. (U. S.) 539, 7 L. Ed. 508.

An agreement not to niienate incumbered (particularly mortgaged) property. This stipulation, sometimes found in mortgages made in Louisiana, and derived from the Spanish law, binds

Same as Pactum.

A pact; a contract.

Relating to or generating an agreement; by way of bargain or covenant.

In international law. Contracts between nations which are to be performed by a single act, and of which execution is at an end at once. 1 Bouv. Inst, note 100. PACTIS PRIVATORUM JU

Private agreements do not derogate from public right.

Settled by agreement.

In the civil law. An agreement not to sue. A simple convention whereby a creditor promises the debtor that he will not enforce his clnim. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 542.

In the civil law. An agreement by which a creditor promised to pay a porlion of a debt difficult to recover to a person who undertook to recover it. Wharton.

By agreement a certain thing may be lawful which without the agreement would not be permitted.

Co. Litt 166. By special agreement things are allowed which are not otherwise permitted.

An agreement; a promise; a contract.

An agree- son who will undertake to recover it. In ment of forfeiture. See Lex Commissoria. general attorneys should abstain from making such a contract: jet it is not unlawful PAC

An agreement to pay money.

A “whips.” See May, Pari. Prac. clause inserted in mortgages in Louisiana PAIS, PAYS. A French word, signifywhich secures to the mortgage creditor the ing country. In law, matter i

An agreement not to sue.

(Civil Law) An agreement to collect a debt for a share of the collection.

Lat. In the law of evidence. The fact to be proved; afact which isin issue, and to which evidence Isto bedirected. 1 Greenl. Hy. § 13.

(Civil Law) An agreement without consideration, enforceable because of the formality of its execution. See 40 N. J. L. 446.

COURT OF. In English ecclesiastical law. A jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and par

A robber; a foot highwayman. PA6A (Spanish). In Spanish law. Payment. Las Partldas, pt. 5, tit. 14, lib. 1, pagamento, satisfaction.

A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

An effigy of St. Patrick. See 4 Clark (Pa.), 17.

ii The apparel and ornaments of a wife, suitable to her rank and degree.' A term borrowed from the civil law. Paraphernal. Pertaining to paraphernalia; also, to property declared t

A parent; a father. In loco parentis. In the place of the pai'ent. Said of a person invested with the rights and charged -with the duties of the parent of a child, as, a guardian,

5 1. A circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having the cure of souls therein.*" Whence parochial. A corporation established solely fo

'See Blockade.

(Spanish) Payment.

A petty magistrate of a pagus or little district in the country.

In~ commercial law. A denormination of money in Bengal. In the computation of ad valorem duties it is valued at one dollar and ninety-four cents. Act March 2, 1799, § 61 (1 Story,

A county.

1. 1. In old English law. To pay. Paiavit: (he) paid.

contributions to the fund were part of the consideration Carter agreed to pay for the services of laborers on his construction jobs. The unpaid contributions were a part of the com

This surplus may be 'paid-in surplus,' as where the stock is issued at a price above par.

A 'paid-up addition' to the policy, by the application of a dividend, is the amount added to the face of the policy and purchased by the use of the dividend as a single premium. Fo

In life insurance. A policy on which no further payments are to be made in the way of annual premiums.

In French law. A contract of letting houses.

See Peins Forte et Dure.

See "Peine Forte et Dure."

BILLS OF. See "Bill of Pains and Penalties."

See Bill of pains and penalties .

See Copyright; Print. Does not include a colored working model and design for carpets and rugs, of no value as a work of art. Paintings on porcelain, and decorated china, are subje

It is held that colored Imitations of rugs and carpets and colored working designs, each of them valuable and designed by skilled persons and hand painted, but having no value as w

A practice of opposing legislators in agreeing not to vote on a measure, the absence of the vote of each, offsetting that of the other who has paired with him.

A legislative practice, said to have originated in the time of Cromwell, whereby legislators of opposite opinions agree not to vote on a given measure. Usually resorted to in order

or PAYS. A French word, signifying "country." In law, matter in pais is matter of fact, in opposition to matter of record; a trial per pais is a trial by the country, — that is, by

CONVEYANCES IN. In old English law. Ordinary conveyances between two or more persons in the country, i. e^ upon the land to be transferred.

Fr. The country; the neighborhood. A trial per pais signifies a trial by the country; that is, by jury. An assurance by matter in pais is an assurance transacted between two or mor

Peace.

In English law. A court which had jurisdiction of all personal actions arising between any parties within twelve miles of Whitehall, not including the city of London. It was erecte

A duty to lords of manors for exporting and importing vessels of wine at any of their ports. Jacob.

Openly.

Possessing royal privileges, See "County Palatine."

Pertaining to a palace, possessing royal privileges. Vi

Formerly the court of common pleas at Lancaster, the chancery court of Lancaster, and the court of pleas at Durham, the second of which alone now exists. PALATIUM (Lat.) A palace.

A palace.

The privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of setting up folds for sheep in any fields within their manors, the better to manure them, and this not only wit

A palfrey; a horse to travel on.

In old English law. A merchant denizen; one born within the English pale. Blount.

A marriage by the parents of bastard children whereat they formally adopted the children.

In old English ents afterwards intermarried. The children, together with the father and mother, stood under a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnized. It was in the nature

A name given to the English statute 19 & 20 Vict. c. 16, enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the central criminal court to be tried in that co

A State of course has power to impose liability upon those who, knowing that the public is relying upon an original manufacturer's reputation for quality and integrity, deceive the