CORAM PARIBNS

Definition and Citations:

Before the peers or freeholders. The attestation of deeds, like all other solemn transactions, was originally done only coram paribus. 2 Bl. Comm. 307. Coram paribus de vicineto. before the peers or freeholders of the neighborhood. Id. 315. Coram sectatoribns. Before the suitors. Cro. Jac. 582