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  • PACTUM
    Lat In the civil law. A pact. An agreement or convention without specific najne, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Heinecc. Elem. lib. S tit. 14, $ 775. In Roman law. With some exceptions, those agreements that the law does not directly enforce, More...
  • PADDER
    A robber; a foot highway man; a foot-pad.
  • PADDOCK
    A small inclosure for deer or other animals.
  • PAGA
    In Spanish law. Payment Las Partidas, pt. 5, tit 14, 1. 1. Pagamento, satisfaction.
  • PAGARCHUS
    A petty magistrate of a pagus or little district in the country.
  • PAGODA
    A gold or silver coin, of several kinds and values, formerly current In India. It was valued, at the United States custom-house, at $1.94.
  • PAGUS
    A county. Jacob.
  • PAINE FORTE ET DURE
    See PEINE FORTE ET DURE
  • PAINS AND PENALTIES, BILLS OF
    The name given to acts of parliament to at* taint particular persons of treason or felony, or to inflict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the common law, to serve a special purpose. They are in fact new laws, made pro re nata.
  • PAINTINGS
    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 works of art are not "paintings," within the meaning of that term as used in a statute on the More...
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