Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

PAOTA PRIVATA. ETC.

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P. P. An abbreviation for "page;" also for "Paschalis," (Easter term,) in the Year Books, and for numerous other words of which it is the initial. P. C. An abbreviation for "Pleas of the Crown;" sometimes also for "Privy Coun cil," "Parliamentary Cases," "Patent Cases," "Practice Cases," "Penal Code," or "Political Code." P. H. V. An abbreviation for "pro hoc vice," for this turn, for this purpose or occa sion. P. J. An abbreviation for "president" (or presiding) "judge," (or justice.) P. L. An abbreviation for "Pamphlet Laws" or "Public Laws." P. M. An abbreviation for "postmaster;" also for "post-meridian," afternoon. P. O. An abbreviation of " public officer;" also of "post-office." P. P. An abbreviation for "propria per sona," in his proper person, in his own per son. P. S. An abbreviation for "Public Stat utes;" also for "postscript" PAAGii. A toll for passage through another's land. PACAB.E. To pay. PACATIO. Payment. Mat. Par. A. D. 1248. PACE. A measure of length containing two feet and a half, being the ordinary length of a step. PACEATUR. Lat. Let him be freed or discharged. Pact sunt maxime contraria vis et in juria. Co. Litt. 161. Violence and injury are the things chiefly hostile to peace. PACIFICATION. The act of making peace between two hostile or belligerent states; re-establishment of public tranquility. PACE. To put together in sorts with a fraudulent design. To pack a jury is to use unlawful, improper, or deceitful means to have the jury made up of persons favorably disposed to the party so contriving, or who have been or can be improperly influenced to

give the verdict he seeks. The term Imports the improper and corrupt selection of a jury sworn and impaneled for the trial of a cause. 12 Conn. 289. PACK OP WOOL. A horse load, which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds, or two hundred and forty pounds weight. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 12; Cowell. PACKAGE. A package means a bundle put up for transportation or commercial handling; a thing in form to become, as such, an article of merchandise or delivery from hand to hand. A parcel is a small package; "parcel" being the diminutive of "package." Each of the words denotes a thing in form suitable for transportation or handling, ox sale from hand to hand. 1 Hughes, 529. "Package," in old English law, signifies one of various duties charged in the port of London on the goods imported and ex ported by aliens, or by denizens the sons of aliens. Tomlins. PACKED PARCELS. The name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, (each bearing a different address,) collected from different persons by the immediate consignor, (a carrier,) who unites them into one for his own profit, at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway com pany would have been paid more for the car riage of the parcels singly than together. Wharton. PACT. A bargain; compact; agreement. This word is used in writings on Koman law and on general jurisprudence as the English form of the Latin "pactum," (which see.) Pacta oonventa qu» neque contra leges neque dolo malo inita sunt omni modo observanda sunt. Agreements which are not contrary to the laws nor entered into with a fraudulent design are in all respects to be observed. Cod. 2, 3, 39; Broom, Max. 698, 732. Pacta dant legem contractui. Hob. 118. The stipulations of parties constitute the law of the contract. Pacta privata juri publico derogare non possunt. 7 Coke, 23. Private com pacts cannot derogate from public right.

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