PARES
Lat. A person’s peers or equals; as the jury for the trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties
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Lat. A person’s peers or equals; as the jury for the trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties
Relating or belonging to a parish.
This term, as used In law, is almost always opposed to “general,” and means either individual, local, partial, special, or belonging to a single person, place, or thing.
See PETIT CAPE.
In the definition of manslaughter as homicide committed without premeditation but under the influence of sudden “passion,” this term means any intense and vehement emotional excitement of the kind prompting to violent
Lat. One who suffers or permits: one to whom an act is done; the passive party in a transaction.
Lat. In Roman law. A person who stood in the relation of protector to another who was called his “client.” One who advised his client in matters of law, aud advocated his
One who pays, or who is to make a payment; particularly the person who is to make payment of a bill or note. Correlative to “payee.”
Lat. In Roman law. At the foot; in a lower position; on the ground. See JUDEX PEDANEUS.
The custom or duty paid for skins of leather.
A standard, banner, or ensign carried in war.
Lat. In old English law. By ring and staff, or crozier. The symbolical mode of conferring an ecclesiastical investure. 1 Bl. Comm. 3 78, 370.
Lat. By threats. See DURESS.
Lat In old English law. By the living voice; the same with viva voce. Bract fol. 95.
Complete; finished; executed ; enforceable.
Negations of law. arising either from the law’s silence or its express declaration. Ruth. Inst. b. 1, c. 1.
Having the rights and powers of a person; able to hold or maintain a plea in court; also capacity to take anything granted or given. Personae vice fungitnr municipinm et decuria. Towns
A woman who breaks the peace.
In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the veins, which may originate in septicemia (bacterial blood- poisoning) or pywmia (poisoning from pus), and is capable of being transmitted to other tissues, as, the
The duty for maintaining piers and harbors.