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  • PARTY(ADJ.)
    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...
  • PARUM
    Lat Little; but little. Parma cavet natura. Nature takes little heed. Vandenheuvel v. United Ins. Co., 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 127, 166e
  • PARUM CAVISSE VIDETUR
    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...
  • PARVA SERJEANTIA
    Petty serjeanty, (9. v.)
  • PARVISE
    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.
  • PARVUM CAPE
    See PETIT CAPE.
  • PAS
    In French. Precedence; right of going foremost.
  • PASCH
    The passover; Easter.
  • PASCHA
    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...
  • PASCUA
    A particular meadow or pasture land set apart to feed cattle.
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