Category: P

A member of a copartner-ship or firm; one who has united with others to form a partnership In business. See Partnership

A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place thelr moncy. effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that there shall be a proportional sharing of the

The dividing of lands held by Joint tenants, coparceners, or tenants ln common, into distinct portions, so that they may hold them ln severalty. And, in a less technical seuse, any division of real or personal property between co-owners or co-proprietors. Meacham v. Meacham, 91 Tenn. 532, 19 S. W. 757; Hudgins v. Sansora, 72 […]

Lat. In the civil law. Par-tltlon; dlvlslon. Thls word did not always signify dimidium, a dividing into halves. Dig. 50, 16, 164, 1

Tbe persons who take part ln the performance of any act, or who are directly Interested in any affair, eontract, or conveyance, or who are actively concerned ln the proseeution and defense of any legal proceeding. U. S. v. Henderlong (C. C.) 102 Fed. 2; Robbins v. Chicago, 4 wall. 672, 18 L. Bd. 427; […]

Span. Part; a part. See Las Partidas

A small piece of land

Lat A participant; a sharer; anciently, a part owner, or parcener

Relating to or constituting a part; not complete; not entire or universal

Lat In Roman law. A legatee who was entitled, hy the directions of the will, to receive a share or portion of the inheritance left to the beir

In old pleading. The parties to the fine had nothing; that is, had no estate which could be conveyed by lt. A plea to a fine which’ had been levied by a stranger. 2 Bl. Comm. 857; 1 P. wms. 520.

Lat. one side being unheard. Spoken of any action which is taken ex parte

In French law. A division made between co-proprietors of a particular estate held by them in common. It is the operation by means of which the goods of a succession are divided among the co-heirs; while licitatlon (q. v.) is an adjudication to the highest bidder of objects which are not divisible. Duverger

A certaln portlon of lands, tithes, and offerings, established by law, for the maintenance of the minister who has the cure of souls. Tomlins

Lat A part; a party to a deed, action, or legal proceedlng

Lat. In the civil law. Parricide; the murder of a parent. Dig. 48, 9, 9

In French law. 1. The magistrates who are charged with the con-duct of proceedings in criminal cases and misdemeanors

The crime of killing one’s father; also a person guilty of killing hia father

L, Fr. words of iaw; technical words

In military law. A promlse glven by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to depart from custody, that he will return at the time appointed, unless dis-charged. webster

A word; speech; hence, oral or verbal; expressed or evidenced by speech only; not expressed by wrltlng; not ex-pressed by sealed instrument

Relating or belonging to a parish

Relating or be-longlng to, connected with, enacted by or proceeding from, or characteristic of, the English parliament in particular, or any legislative body in general

L Lat A legisla-tive body in general or the English par-llament In particular

or PARLING HILL. A

The supreme legisla-tlve assembly of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of the king or queen and the three estates of the realm, viz., the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons. 1 Bl. Comm. 153

NG. In municipal law and ad-minlstration. A strip of land, lying elther in the middle of the street or ln the space between the building line and the sidewalk, or between the sidewalk and the drlveway, intended to be kept as a park-like space, that is, not built upon, but beautified with turf, trees, flower-beds, […]

To be quit of inclosing a park or any part thereof

A park-keeper

A beadle; a summoner to’ the courts of civil law

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 pre-cinct of a parish church, and the particular charge of a secular priest. Cowell. An ec-deeiastical dlvision of a […]

Members of a parish. In England, for many purposes they form’ a body politic

Lat In the civU law. A wall. Paries est, sive murus, sive maceria est. D.ig. 50, 16, 157

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In Spanish law. Rela-tions. white, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, I 2

Lat For the like reason; by like mode of reasoning

Lat. By an equal prog-ress; equably;. ratably; without preference. Coote, Mortg. 56

Lat with equal right; upon an equal footing; equlvalent in rights or claims

one work executed lu the intervals of another; a subordinate task. Particularly, the name of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe

Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not Injure the gramma tical construction of the reBt of the sentence, wharton; In re Schilling, 53 Fed. 81, 3 CL C. A. 440

Lat. In Roman law. A par-ent; originally and properly only the father or mother of the person spoken of; but also, by an extension of its meaning, any relative, male or female, in the line of direct ascent

In old English law. Per-sons who carried about the pope’s indul

An act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the Individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law lnfiicts for a crime he has com-mltted. U. S. v. wilson, 7 Pet. 160, 8 L. Ed. 640; Ex parte Garland, 4 wall. 380, 18 L. […]

Pound-breach; also the name of an old English writ against one chargeable with pound-breach

A park, (q. v.> A pound for stray cattle. Spelman

Sheep-skins dressed for writing, so called from Pergamus, Asia Min-or, where they were invented. Used for deeds, and used for writs of summons in England previous to the Judicature act, 1875. wharton

The state or condition of holding title to lands Jolutly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate.

A joint heir; one who, with others, holds an estate in co-parcenary, (9- v

A parcel of land

In the law of real property parcel slgnifies a part or portion of land. As used of chattels, it signifies a small package or bundle. See State v. Jordan, 3G Fla. 1, 17 South. 742; Miller v. Burke, 6 Daly (N. Y.) 174; Johnson v. Sirret, 153 N. Y. 51, 46 N, B. 1085