Legal Term Dictionary

In medical Jurisprudence. Progressive general paralysis, involving or leading to the form of insanity known as "dementia paralytica.'* Popularly, but not very correctly, called "softening of the brain." See INSANITY.

In medical Jurisprudence. Progressive general paralysis, involving or leading to the form of insanity known as "dementia paralytica.'* Popularly, but not very correctly, called "softening of the brain." See INSANITY. Less...

Lat. With equal right; upon an equal footing; equivalent in rights or claims.

Lat. With equal right; upon an equal footing; equivalent in rights or claims. Less...

Lat In equal fault SEE: IN PARI DELICTO

Lat In equal fault SEE: IN PARI DELICTO Less...

Lat Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Abr. "Statute," I, 3.

Lat Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Abr. "Statute," I, 3. Less...

Lat By an equal progress; equably ; ratably; without preference. Coote, Mortg. 56.

Lat By an equal progress; equably ; ratably; without preference. Coote, Mortg. 56. Less...

Lat For the like reason; by like mode of reasoning. o Paria oopulantnr paribus. Like things unite with like, pac Max. Paribus sententiis reus absolvitor. Where the opinions are equal, [where the court is equally divided,] the defendant is acquitted. 4 Inst 64.

Lat For the like reason; by like mode of reasoning. o Paria oopulantnr paribus. Like things unite with like, pac Max. Paribus sententiis reus absolvitor. Where the opinions are equal, [where the court is equally divided,] the defendant is acquitted. 4 Inst 64. Less...

In Spanish law. Relations. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 7, c. 6, i 2.

In Spanish law. Relations. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 7, c. 6, i 2. Less...

Lat In the civil law. A wall. Paries est, sive mums, sive maceria est. D.ig. 50, 16, 157. -Paries communis. A common wall; " a party-wall. Dig. 29, 2, 39.

Lat In the civil law. A wall. Paries est, sive mums, sive maceria est. D.ig. 50, 16, 157. -Paries communis. A common wall; " a party-wall. Dig. 29, 2, 39. Less...

See DECLARATION.

See DECLARATION. Less...

In English law. A circuit of ground, committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. 1 BL Comm. 111. Wilson v. State, 34 Ohio St. 199. The precinct of a parish church, and the particular charge of a secular priest. Cowell. More...

In English law. A circuit of ground, committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. 1 BL Comm. 111. Wilson v. State, 34 Ohio St. 199. The precinct of a parish church, and the particular charge of a secular priest. Cowell. An ecclesiastical division of a town or district subject to the ministry of one pastor. Brande. In New England. A corporation established for the maintenance of public worship, which may be coterminous with a-town, or include only part of It A precinct or parish is a corporation established solely for the purpose of maintaining public worship, and its powers are limited to that object. It may raise money for building and keeping in repair its meeting-house and supporting its minister, but for no other purpose. A town, is a civil and political corporation, established for municipal purposes. They may - both subsist together in the same territory/and be composed of the same persons. Milford v. , Godfrey, 1 Pick. (Mass.) 91. In Louisiana. A territorial division of the state corresponding to what is elsewhere called a "county." See Sherman v. Parish of Vermillion, .51 Law Ann. 880, 25 South. 538; Attorney General v. Detroit Common Council, U2 Mich. 148, 70 N. W. 450, 37 L. R. A. 211. -'-Parish apprentice. In English law. The children of parents unable to maintain them may, by law, be apprenticed, by the guardians or overseers Of their parish, to such persons as may be willing to receive them as apprentices. Such children are called "parish apprentices.", 2 Steph. Comm. 230.-Parish chnroh. This expression has various significations. It is ap-' plied sometimes to a select body of Christians, forming a local spiritual association, and sometimes to the building in which the public worship of the inhabitants of a parish, is celebrated ; but the true legal udtfott of a parochial' church is a consecrated place, having attached to it the rights of burial and the administration of the sacraments. Story, Jw Pawlet v. Clark, 0 Cranch, 326, 3 L. Ed.. 735.-Parian clerk. In English law. An Officer; in. former times; often in holy orders, and appointed to officiate" at the altar; now his duty consists, chiefly infc making responses in church to the minister.. By common law he has a freehold in his office, t but it seems now to be falling into desuetude.'* 2 Steph; Comm. 700; Mozley A Whitley.-Parish constable A petty constable exercising * his functions within a given parish. Mozley &, Whitley.-Parish court. The name of a court. established in each parish in Louisiana, and corresponding to the county courts or common pleas courts in the other states. It has a limited civil jurisdiction, besides general probate powers.^-*.' Parish officers. Church-wardens, overseers* and constables.-Parish priest. In English.' law. .The parson; a minister who holds a par-^; ish as a benefice. If the predial tithes are appropriated, he is Called "rector?' if impropriat- % ed, "vicar." Wharton. Less...