Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

PARISH CONSTABLE

PARENTICIDE

PARIES COMMUNIS. In the civil lav. A common wall; a party-wall. Dig. 29, 2, 39. PARISH. In English law. Acircuit of ground, committed to the charge of one par son or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. 1 Bl. Comm. 111. The pre cinct of a parish church, and the particular charge of a secular priest. Cowell. An ec clesiastical division of a town or district, sub ject to the ministry of one pastor. Brande, In New England. A corporation estab lished for the maintenance of public wor ship, which may be coterminous with a town, or include only part of it. A precinct or parish is a corporation established solely for the purpose of maintaining public wor ship, and its powers are limited to that object. It may raise money for building and keeping in re pair its meeting-house and supporting its minister, but for no other purpose. A town is a civil and po litical corporation, established for municipal par poses. They may both subsist together in the same territory, and be composed of the same persons. 1 Pick. 91. In Louisiana. A territorial division of the state corresponding to what is elsewhere called a "county." PARISH APPRENTICE. In English law. The children of parents unable to main tain them may, by law, be apprenticed, by the guardians or overseers of their parish, to such persons as may be willing to receive them as apprentices. Such children are called " parish apprentices." 2 Steph. Comm. 230. PARISH CHURCH. This expression has various significations. It is applied sometimes to a select body of Christians, forming a local spiritual association, and sometimes to the building in which the pub lic worship of the inhabitants of a parish is celebrated; but the true legal notion of a parochial church is a consecrated place, hav ing attached to it the rights of burial and the ad ministration of the sacraments. Story, J., 9 Cranch, 326. PARISH CLERK. In English law. An officer, in former times often in holy orders, and appointed to officiate at the altar; now his duty consists chiefly in making responses in church to the minister. By common law he has a freehold in his office, but it seems now to be falling into desuetude. 2 Steph. Comm. 700; Mozley & Whitley. PARISH CONSTABLE. A petty con j»*,abl6 exercising his functions within » giv en parish. Mozley & Whitley.

PARENTICIDE. One who murders a parent; also the crime so committed. Parentum est liberos alere etiam no thos. It is the duty of parents to support their children even when illegitimate. Loff t, 222. PARERGON. One work executed in the intervals of another; a subordinate task. Particularly, the name of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe. PARES. A person's peers or equals; as the jury for the trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties liti gant; and, as the lord's vassals judged each other in the lord's courts, so the sovereign's vassals, or the lords themselves, judged each other in the sovereign's courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 849. PARES CTJRI2E. Peers of the court. Vassals who were bound to attend the lord's court. PARES REGNI. Peers of the realm. Spelocaa PART CAT7SA. Lat. With equal right; upon an equal footing; equivalent in rights or claims. PAR! DELICTO. Lat. In equal fault. See IN PABI DELIOTO. PARI MATERIA. Lat. Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pan" materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Abr. "Statute," I, 3. PARI PASSU. Lat. By an equal prog ress; equably; ratably; without preference. Coote, Mortg. 56. PARI RATIONE. Lat. For the like reason; by like mode of reasoning. Paria copulantur panbus. Like things unite with like. Bac. Max. Paribus sententiis reus absolvitur. Where the opinions are equal, [where the court is equally divided,] the defendant isac quifted. 4 Inst. 64. PARIENTES. In Spanish law. Rela tions. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, §2. PARIES. In the civil law. A wall. Pa ries est, sive murus, sive maceria est. Dig. 50, 16, 157.

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