Legal Term Dictionary

A person concerned or having or taking part in any affair, matter, transaction, or proceeding, considered individually. See PASTIES. The term "parties" includes all persons who are directly interested in the subject-matter in issue, who have a right to make defense, control the proceedings, or appeal from the judgment. Strangers More...

A person concerned or having or taking part in any affair, matter, transaction, or proceeding, considered individually. See PASTIES. The term "parties" includes all persons who are directly interested in the subject-matter in issue, who have a right to make defense, control the proceedings, or appeal from the judgment. Strangers are persons who do not possess these rights. Hunt v. Haven, 52 N. H. 162. T'Party" is a technical word, and has a precise meaning in legal parlance. By it is understood he or they by or against whom a suit is brought, whether in law or equity; the party plaintiff or defendant whether composed of one or more individuals, and whether natural or legal persons, (they are parties in the writ, and parties on the record;) and all others who may be affected by the suit, indirectly or consequentially, are persons interested, but not parties. Merchants' Bank v. Cook, 4 Pick. 405. -Party and party. This phrase signifies the contending parties in an action; i. e., the plaintiff and defendant as distinguished from the attorney and his client It is used in connection with the subject of costs, which are differently taxed between party and party and between attorney and client. Brown.-Real party. In statutes requiring suits to be * brought in the name of the,''real party in interest this term means the person who is actually and substantially interested in the subject-matter, as distinguished from one who has only a nominal, formal, or technical interest in it or connection with it. Hoagland v. Van Etten, 22 Neb. 681, 35 N. W. 870; Gruber v. Baker, 20 Nev. 453, 23 Pac. 858, 9 L. R. A. 302; Chew v. Brumag-en, IB Wall. 504, 20 L. Ed. 663.-Third par* '8 PARVISE ties. A term used to include all persons wbc are not parties to the contract, agreement or instrument of writing by which their interest in the thing conveyed is sought to be affected. Morrison v. Trudeau (La.) 1 Mart (N. S.) 384. Less...

adj. Relating or belonging to, or composed of, two or more parts or portions, or two or more persons or classes of persons. -Party Jury. A jury de medietate lingua; (which title see.)-Party structure is a structure separating buildings, stories, or rooms which belong to different owners, or which are More...

adj. Relating or belonging to, or composed of, two or more parts or portions, or two or more persons or classes of persons. -Party Jury. A jury de medietate lingua; (which title see.)-Party structure is a structure separating buildings, stories, or rooms which belong to different owners, or which are approached by distinct staircases or separate entrances from without whether the same be a partition, arch, floor, or other structure. (St 18 & 19 Vict, c 122, f 3.) Mozley A Whitley. -Party-wall. A wail built partly on the land of one owner, and partly on tbe land of another, for the common benefit of both in supporting timbers used in the construction of contiguous buildings. Brown v. Werner, 40 Md. 19. In the primary and most ordinary meaning of the term, a party-wall is (1) a wall of which the two adjoining owners are tenants in common. But it may also mean (2) a wall divided longitudinally into two strips, one belonging to each of the neighboring owners; (3) a wall which belongs entirely to one of the adjoining owners, but is subject to an easement or right in the other to have it maintained as. a dividing wall between the two tenements, (the term is so used in some of the English building acts;) or (4) a wall divided longitudinally into two moieties, each moiety being subject to a cross-easement in favor of the owner of the other moiety. Sweet Less...

Lat Little; but little. Parma cavet natura. Nature takes little heed. Vandenheuvel v. United Ins. Co., 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 127, 166e

Lat Little; but little. Parma cavet natura. Nature takes little heed. Vandenheuvel v. United Ins. Co., 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 127, 166e Less...

Lat In Roman law. He seems to have taken too little care; he seems to have been incautious, or not sufficiently upon his guard. A form of expression used by the judge or magistrate in pronouncing sentence of death upon a criminal. Festus, 325; Tayl. Civil Law, 81; 4 Bl. More...

Lat In Roman law. He seems to have taken too little care; he seems to have been incautious, or not sufficiently upon his guard. A form of expression used by the judge or magistrate in pronouncing sentence of death upon a criminal. Festus, 325; Tayl. Civil Law, 81; 4 Bl. Comm. 362, note. Parum differunt qnss re concordant. 2 Bulst 86. Things which agree in substance differ hut little. Parum est latum esse sententiam nisi mandetur execution!. It is little [or to little purpose] that judgment be given unless it be committed to execution. Co. Litt 289. Parum profidt scire quid neri debet, si non cognosces quomodo sit faoturum. 2 Inst. 503. It profits little to know what ought to be done, if you do not know how it is to be done. Less...

Petty serjeanty, (9. v.)

Petty serjeanty, (9. v.) Less...

An afternoon's exercise or moot for the instruction of young students, bearing the same name originally with the Parvisiw (little-go) of Oxford. Wharton.

An afternoon's exercise or moot for the instruction of young students, bearing the same name originally with the Parvisiw (little-go) of Oxford. Wharton. Less...

See PETIT CAPE.

See PETIT CAPE. Less...

In French. Precedence; right of going foremost.

In French. Precedence; right of going foremost. Less...

The passover; Easter.

The passover; Easter. Less...

In old English law and practice. Easter. De termino Pascha, of the term of Easter. Bract fol. 2465. -Pascha clausula. The octave of Easter, or Jjow-Sunday, which closes that solemnity.- Pascha floridum. The Sunday before Easter, called "Palm-Sunday."-Paseha rents. In English ecclesiastical law. Yearly tributes paid by the clergy to More...

In old English law and practice. Easter. De termino Pascha, of the term of Easter. Bract fol. 2465. -Pascha clausula. The octave of Easter, or Jjow-Sunday, which closes that solemnity.- Pascha floridum. The Sunday before Easter, called "Palm-Sunday."-Paseha rents. In English ecclesiastical law. Yearly tributes paid by the clergy to the bishop or archdeacon at their Easter visitations. Less...