Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

PAR OF EXCHANGE

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PARATITLA

fixed by the mint standard of the respective countries. Story, Bills, § 30. The par of the currencies of any two countries means the equivalence of a certain amount of the currency of the one in the currency of the other, supposing the currency of both to be of the precise weight and purity fixed by their respective mints. The exchange between the two countries is said to be at par when bills are negotiated on this footing; i. e., when a bill for £100 drawn on London sells in Paris for 2,520 frs., and vice versa. Bowen, Fol. Econ.284. FAB ONERI. Lat. Equal to the bur den or charge; equal to the detriment or dam age. PARACHRONISM. Error in the com putation of time. PARACIUM. The tenure between par ceners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday. PARAGE, or PARAGIUM. An equal ity of blood or dignity, but more especially of land, in the partition of an inheritance be tween co-heirs; more propeily, however, an equality of condition among nobles, or per sons holding by a noble tenure. Thus, when a fief is divided among brothers, the younger hold their part of the elder by parage; i. e., without any homage or service. Also the portion which a woman may obtain on her marriage. Cowell. PARAGRAPH. A part or section of a statute, pleading, affidavit, etc., which con tains one article, the sense of which is com plete. PARALLEL. For two lines of street railway to be "parallel," within the meaning of a statute, it may not be necessary that the two lines should be parallel for the whole length of each or either route. Exact par allelism is not contemplated. 144 Mass. 264,10 N. E. Rep. 835, 836. PARAMOUNT. Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished from the tnesne (or intermediate) lord. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135. In the law of real property, the term "para mount title" properly denotes one which is superior to the title with which it is com pared, in the sense that the former is the source or origin of the latter. It is, how ever, frequently used to denote a title which is simply better or stronger than another, or will prevail over it. But this use is scarcely

correct, unless the superiority consists in the seniority of the title spoken of as "para mount." PARAMOUNT EQUITY. An equi table right or claim which is prior, superior, or preferable to that with which it is com pared. PARAPHERNA. In the civil law. Goods brought by wife to husband over and above her dowry. PARAPHERNAL PROPERTY. See PARAPHERNALIA. PARAPHERNALIA. In the civil law. The separate property of a married woman, other than that which is included in her dowry, or dos. The separate property of the wife is divid ed into dotal and extradotal.. Dotal proper ty is that which the wife brings to the hus band to assist him in bearing the expenses of the marriage establishment. Extradotal property, otherwise called "paraphernal property," is that which forms no part of the dowry. Civil Code La. art. 2335. The wife's paraphernalia shall not be sub ject to the debts or contracts of the husband, and shall consist of the apparel of herself and her children, her watch, and ornaments suitable to her condition in life, and all such articles of personalty as have been given to her for her own use and comfort. Code Ga. 1882, § 1773. In English law. Those goods which a woman is allowed to have, after the death of her husband, besides her dower, consisting of her apparel and ornaments, suitable to her rank and degree. 2 Bl. Comm. 436. PARAPHERNAUX, BIENS. Fr. In French law. All the wife's property which is not subject to the rigime dotal is called by this name; and of these articles the wife has the entire administration; but she may allow the husband to enjoy them, and in that case he is not liable to account. Brown. PARASCEVE. The sixth day of the last week in Lent, particularly called "Good Fri day." In English law, it is a dies non ju ridicus. PARASYNEXIS. In the civil law. A conventicle, or unlawful meeting. PARATITLA. In the civil law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents. Cod. 1, 17, 1, 12.

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