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PACIFICATION

The act of making peace between two hostile or belligerent states; re-establishment of public tranquility.

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

PANTS

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

PARATITLA

In the civil law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents. Cod. 1, 17, 1 12.

PARESIS

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.

PAROLE

In military law. A promise given by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to depart from custody, that he will return at the time appointed, unless discharged. Webster. An engagement

PARTICULARS

The details of a claim, or the separate items of an account. When these are stated in an orderly form, for the information of a defendant, the statement is called a “bill

PAS

In French. Precedence; right of going foremost

PASSIVE

As used in law, this term means inactive; permissive; consisting in endurance or submission, rather than action; and iu some connections it carries the implication of being subjected to a burden or

PATRIA

Lat. The country, neighborhood, or vicinage; the men of the neighborhood ; a jury of the vicinage. Synonymous, in this sense, with “pais.” Patria laboribns et expensis non debet fatigari. A jury

PATROON

The proprietors of certain manors created in New York in colonial times were so called.

PAYMASTER

An officer of the army or navy whose duty is to keep the pay-accounts and pay the wages of the officers and men. Any official charged with the disbursement of public money.

PEDDLERS

Itinerant traders; persons who sell small wares, which they carry with them in traveling about from place to place. In re Wilson. 19 D. C. 341, 12 L. It. A. t’,24 ;

PENNY

An English coin, being the twelfth part of a shilling. It was also used in America during the colonial period.

PER ANNUM

Lat. By the year. A phrase still in common use. Ramsdell v. llulett. 50 Kan. 440, 31 Pac. 1002; State v. McFotridge. 04 Wis. 130, 24 N. W. 140; Ilaney v. Caldwell,

PER MY ET PER TOUT

L. Fr. By the half and by the whole. A phrase descriptive of the mode in which joint tenants hold the joint estate, the effect of which, technically considered, is that for

PER YEAR

in a contract, is equivalent to the word “annually.” Curtiss v. Howell, 39 N. Y. 211.

PERFECTING BAIL

Certain qualifications of a property character being required of persons who tender themselves as bail, when such persons have justified, i. c., es- tablished their sufficiency by satisfying the court that they

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