Legal Term Dictionary

Lat In old English law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 9.

Lat In old English law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 9. Less...

A common of pannage is the right of feeding swine on mast and acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest Elton, Commons, 25; Williams, Common, 168. Pan n agin m est pastas poroornm, in nemoribus et in silvis, nt pnta, de glan-dibns, ate. 1 Bulst 7. A More...

A common of pannage is the right of feeding swine on mast and acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest Elton, Commons, 25; Williams, Common, 168. Pan n agin m est pastas poroornm, in nemoribus et in silvis, nt pnta, de glan-dibns, ate. 1 Bulst 7. A pannagium is a pasture of hogs, in woods and forests, upon acorns, and so forth. Less...

The act of impaneling a jury.

The act of impaneling a jury. Less...

A dramatic performance in which gestures take the place of words. See 3 C. B. 871.

A dramatic performance in which gestures take the place of words. See 3 C. B. 871. Less...

A written or printed document or instrument A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, ia the phrase "papers in the case" and in "papers on appeal." Any writing or printed document, including letters, memoranda, legal or business documents, and books of account as in More...

A written or printed document or instrument A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, ia the phrase "papers in the case" and in "papers on appeal." Any writing or printed document, including letters, memoranda, legal or business documents, and books of account as in the constitutional provision which protects the people from unreasonable searches and seizures in respect to their "papers" as well as their houses and persons. A written or printed evidence of debt particularly a promissory note or a bill of exchange, as in the phrases "accommodation paper" and "commercial paper." In English, praetiee. The list of causes or cases intended for argument called "the paper of causes." 1 Tidd, Pr. 504. -Accommodation paper. See that title-Commercial paper. See COMMERCIAL.-Paper blockade. See BLOCKADE.-Paper booh. In practice. A printed collection or abstract In methodical order, of the pleadings, evidence, exhibits, and proceedings in a cause, or whatever else may be necessary to a full understanding of it, prepared for the use of the judges upon a hearing or argument on appeal. Copies of tbe proceedings on an issrp in law or demurrer, of cases, and of tbe proceedings on error, prepared for the use of the judges, and delivered to them previous to bringing the cause to argument. 3 Bl. Comm. 317; Archb. Now Pr. 353; 5 Man. ft G. 08. In proceedings on appeal or error in a criminal case, copies of the proceedings with a note of the points intended to be argued, delivered to the judges by the parties before the argument. Archb. Crim. PI. 205: Sweet-Paper credit. Credit given on the security of any written obligation purporting to represent property.-J-Paper days. In English law. Certain days in term-time appointed by the courts for hearings or arguments in the cases set down in the various special papers. -Paper money. Bills drawn by a government against its own credit, engaging to pay money, but which do not profess to be immediately convertible Into specie, and which are put into compulsory circulation as a substitute for coined money.-Paper office. In English law. An ancient office in the palace of Whitehall, where all the public writings, matters of state and council, proclamations, letters, intelligences, negotiations of the queen's ministers abroad. and generally all the papers and dispatches that pass through the offices of the secretaries of state, are deposited. Also an office or room in the court of queen's bench where the records belonging to that court are deposited; sometimes called "paper-mill." Wharton.-Paper title. See TITLE. Less...

One who adheres to the communion of the Church of Rome. The word seems to be considered by the Roman Catholics themselves as a nickname of reproach, originating in their maintaining the supreme ecclesiastical power of the pope. Wharton.

One who adheres to the communion of the Church of Rome. The word seems to be considered by the Roman Catholics themselves as a nickname of reproach, originating in their maintaining the supreme ecclesiastical power of the pope. Wharton. Less...

In commercial law.' Equal; equality. An equality subsisting between the nominal or face value of a bill of exchange, share of stock, etc., and its actual selling value. When the values are thus equal, the instrument or share is said to be "at par;" if it can be sold for More...

In commercial law.' Equal; equality. An equality subsisting between the nominal or face value of a bill of exchange, share of stock, etc., and its actual selling value. When the values are thus equal, the instrument or share is said to be "at par;" if it can be sold for more than its nominal worth, it is "above par;" if for less, it is "below par." tt Edward v. Fish, 156 N. Y. 363, 50 N. E. 973; Evans v. Tillman, 38 S. C. 238, 17 S. E. 49. -Par of exchange. In mercantile law. The precise equality or equivalency of any given sum or quantity of money in the coin of one country, and the like sum or quantity of money in the coin of any other foreign country into which It is to be exchanged, supposing the money of such country to be of the precise weight and purity fixed by the mint standard of the respective countries. Story, Bills, 4 30. Murphy v. Kastner, 50 N. J. Eq. 220, 24 Atl. 564; Blue Star S. S. Co. v. Keyser (D. C.) 81 Fed. 510. The par of the currencies of any two countries means the equivalence of a certain amount of the currency of the one in tbe currency of the other, supposing the currency , of both to be of the precise weight and purity fixed by their respective mints. The exchange between the two countries is said to be at par when bills are negotiated on this footing; t. when a bill for ?100 drawn on London sells in Paris for 2,520 frs., and vice vena. Bowen, Pol. Econ. 284. Less...

Lat. Equal. -Par delictum. Equal guilt. "This is not a case of par delictum. It is oppression on one side and submission on the other. It never can be predicated as par delictum when one holds the rod and the other bows to it" 6 Maule ft S. 165.-Par oneri. More...

Lat. Equal. -Par delictum. Equal guilt. "This is not a case of par delictum. It is oppression on one side and submission on the other. It never can be predicated as par delictum when one holds the rod and the other bows to it" 6 Maule ft S. 165.-Par oneri. Equal to the burden or charge; equal to the detriment or damage. Par in parent imperinm non habet. Jenk. Cent. 174. An equal has no dominion over an equal. Less...

Error in the computation of time.

Error in the computation of time. Less...

The tenure between parceners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday.

The tenure between parceners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday. Less...