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  • PARISHIONERS
    Members of a parish. In England, for many purposes they form' a body politic.
  • PARITOR
    A beadle; a summoner to the courts of civil law. Parinm eadem est ratio idem jns. Of things equal, the reason is the same, and the, same is the law.
  • PARIUM JUDICIUM
    The judgment of peers; trial by a jury of one's peers or equals.
  • PARK
    In English law. A tract of Inclosed ground privileged for keeping wild beasts of the chase, particularly deer; an inclosed chase extending only over a man's own grounds. 2 Bl. Comm. o*8. In American law. An inclosed pleasure-ground in or near a city, set apart for the recreation of the More...
  • PARK-BOTE
    To be quit of inclosing a park or any part thereof.
  • PARKER
    A park-keeper. PARKING. In municipal law and administration. A strip of land, lying either in the middle of the street or in the space between the building line and the sidewalk, or between the sidewalk and the driveway, intended to be kept as a park-like space, that is, not built More...
  • PARLE HILL, OR PARLING HILL
    A hill where courts were anciently held. Cowell.
  • PARLIAMENT
    The supreme legislative assembly of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of the king or queen and the three estates of the realm, viz., the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons. 1 Bl. Comm. 153. -High oourt of parliament. In English law. The English parliament, as composed of the More...
  • PARLIAMENTARY
    Relating or belonging to, connected with, enacted by or proceeding from, or characteristic of, the English parliament in particular, or any legislative body in general. -Parliamentary agents. Persons who act as solicitors in promoting and carrying private bills through parliament They are usually attorneys or solicitors, but they do not More...
  • PARLIAMENTUM
    L. Lat A legislative body in general or the English parliament in particular. -Parliamentnm diabolienm. A parliament held at Coventry, 38 Hen. VI., wherein Edward, Eart of March, (afterwards King Edward IV.,) and many of the chief nobility were attainted, was so called; but the acts then made were annulled More...
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