Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

PABATUM HABEO

PARENTHESIS

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PARATUM HABEO. Lat. I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant in readiness to be brought into court. PARATUS EST VERIFICARE. Lat. He is ready to verify. The Latin form for concluding a pleading with a verification, (q. v.) FABA7AIL. Inferior; subordinate. Tenant paravail signified the lowest tenant of land, being the tenant of a mesne lord. He was so called because he was supposed to make "avail" or profit of the land for anoth er. Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 60. PARCEL. In the law of real property, parcel signifies a part or portion of land. As used of chattels, it signifies a small package or bundle. PARCEL MAKERS. Two officers in the exchequer who formerly made the parcels or items of the escheators' accounts, wherein they charged them with everything they had levied for the king during the term of their office. Cowell. PARCELLA TERR.33. A parcel of land. PARCELS. A description of property, formerly set forth in a conveyance, together with the boundaries thereof, in order to its easy identification. PARCELS, BILL OF. An account of the items composing a parcel or package of goods, transmitted with them to the pur chaser. PARCENARY. The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate. PARCENER. A joint heir; one who, with others, holds an estate in co-parcenary, PARCHMENT. Sheep-skins dressed for writing, so called from Pergamus, Asia Minor, where they were invented. Used for deeds, and used for writs of summons in England previous to the judicature act, 1875. Wharton. PARCO FRACTO. Pound-breach; also the name of an old English writ against one chargeable with pound-breach. PARCUS. A park, (q. v.) A pound for •tray cattle. Spelman.

PARDON. 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 inflicts for a crime he has committed. 7 Pet. 160. "Pardon" is to be distinguished from "amnes ty. " The former applies only to the individual, releases him from the punishment fixed by law for his specific offense, but does not affect the crim inality of the same or similar acts when performed by other persons or repeated by the same person. The latter term denotes an act of grace, extended by the government to all persons who may come within its terms, and which obliterates the crimi nality of past acts done, and declares that they shall not be treated as punishable. PARDONERS. In old English law. Persons who carried about the pope's indul gences, and sold them to any who would buy them. PARENS. 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. "Parens" est nomen generale ad omne genus cognationis. Co. Litt. 80. "Par ent" is a name general for every kind of re lationship. PARENS PATRIJE. Parent of the country. In England, the king. In the United States, the state, as a sovereign, is the parens pairice. PARENT. The lawful father or the mother of a person. This word is distin guished from "ancestors" in including only the immediate progenitors of the person, while the latter embraces his more remote relatives in the ascending line. PARENTELA, or deparentela se tollere, in old English law, signified a renunciation of one's kindred and family. This was, ac cording to ancient custom, done in open couit, before the judge, and in the presence of twelve men, who made oath that they be lieved it was done for a just cause. We read of it in the laws of Henry I. After such abjuration, the person was incapable of inheriting anything from any of his relations, etc. Enc. Lond. PARENTHESIS. Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the sentence. Wharton.

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