Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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PABISH COURT

PAROCHIA,

PABISH COURT. The name of a court established in each parish in Louisiana, and corresponding to the county courts or common pleas courts in the other states. It has a limited civil jurisdiction, besides general pro bate powers. PARISH OPPICBRS. Church-ward ens, overseers, and constables. PARISH PRIEST. In English law. The parson; a minister who holds a parish as a benefice. If the predial tithes are appro priated, he is called "rector;" if impropriat ed, "vicar." Wbarton. PARISHIONERS. Members of a par ish. In England, for many purposes they form a body politic PARITOR. A beadle; a summoner to the courts of civil law Parium eadem est ratio, idem jus. Of things equal, the reason is the same, and the same is the law. PARIUM JUDICIUM. The judgment of peers; trial by a jury of one's peers or equals. PARK. In English law. A tract of inclosed ground privileged for keeping wild beasts of the chase, particularly deer; an in closed chase extending only over a man's own grounds. 2 Bl. Comm. 38. In American law. An inclosed pleas ure-ground in or near a city, set apart for the recreation of the public. PARK-BOTE. To be quit of inclosing a park or any part thereof. PARKER. A park-keeper. PARLE HILL or PARLING HILL. A hill where courts were anciently held. Cowell. PARLIAMENT. The supreme legisla tive 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. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. Per sons who act as solicitors in promoting and carrying private bills through parliament. They are usually attorneys or solicitors, but they do not usually confine their practice to this particular department. Brown. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. A committee of members of the house of

j.-eers or of the house of commons, appointed by either house for the purpose of making in quiries, by the examination of witnesses or otherwise, into matters which could not be conveniently inquired into by the who's house. Wharton. PARLIAMENTARY TAXES. Such taxes as are imposed directly by act of parlia ment, i. e. t by the legislature itself, as dis tinguished from those which are imposed by private individuals or bodies under the au thority of an act of parliament. Thus, a sewers rate, not being imposed directly by act of parliament, but by certain persons termed "commissioners of sewers," is not a parliamentary tax; whereas the income tax, which is directly imposed, and the amount also fixed, by act of parliament, is a parlia mentary tax. Brown. PARLIAMENTUM DIABOLICUM. A parliament held at Coventry, 38 Hen. VI., wherein Edward, Earl of March, (afterwards King Edward IV.,) and many of the chief nobility were attainted, was so called; but the acts then made were annulled by the suc ceeding parliament. Jacob. PARLIAMENTUM INDOCTUM. Unlearned or lack-learning parliament. A name given to a parliament held at Coventry in the sixth year of Henry IV. under an ordi nance requiring that no lawyer should be chosen knight, citizen, or burgess; "by rea son whereof," says Sir Edwaid Coke, "this parliament was fruitless, and never a good law made thereat." 4 Inst. 48; 1 Bl. Comm. 177. PARLIAMENTUM INSANUM. A parliament assembled at Oxford, 41 Hen. III., so styled from the madness of their proceed ings, and because the lords came with armed men to it, and contentions grew very high between the king, lords, and commons, whereby many extiaordinary things were done. Jacob. PARLIAMENTUM RELIGIOSO RUM. In most convents there has been a common room into which the brethren with drew for conversation; conferences there be ing termed "parliamentum. " Likewise,the societies of the two temples, or inns of court, call that assembly of the benchers or govern ors wherein they confer upon the common affairs of their several houses a " parliament" Jacob. Parochia est locus quo degit populus alicujus ecclesi®. 5 Coke, 67. A parish

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