KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PACTA CONVENTA

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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 hao vice," for this turn, for this purpose or occa sion. P. J. An abbreviation for "president" (or presiding) "judge," (or justice.) P. It. 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-offlce." 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" PAAGE. In old English law. A toll for passage through another's land. The same as "pedage." PACARE. L. Lat 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. Paci sunt mazime eontraria 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. PACK. 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. Mix v. Woodward, 12 Conn. 289. PACK OF 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, or sale from hand to hand. U. S. v. Goldback, 1 Hughes, 529, Fed. Cas. No. 15,222; Haley v. State, 42 Neb. 556, 60 N. W. 962, 47 Am. St Rep. 718; State v. Par sons, 124 Mo. 436, 27 S. W. 1102, 46 Am. St Rep. 457. "Package," in old English law, signifies one of various duties charged in the port of London on the goods imported and exported by aliens, or by denizens the sons of aliens. Tomlins. —Original package. See ORIGINAL 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 consign or, (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 company would have been paid more for the carriage of the parcels singly than together. Wharton. PACT. A bargain; compact; agreement. This word Is used in writings on Roman law and on general jurisprudence as the English form of the Latin "pactum," (which see.) —Nude pact. A translation of the Latin "nudum pactum" a bare or naked pact, that is, a promise or agreement made without any consideration on the other side, which is there fore not enforceable.—Pact de non alienan do. An agreement not to alienate incumbered (particularly mortgaged) property. This stipu lation, sometimes found in mortgages made in Louisiana, and derived from the Spanish law, binds the mortgagor not to sell or incumber the mortgaged premises to the prejudice of the mortgagee; it does not avoid a sale made to a third person, but enables the mortgagee to pro ceed directly against the mortgaged property in a proceeding against the mortgagor alone and without notice to the purchaser. See Dodds v. Lanaux, 45 La. Ana. 287, 12 South. 345. Paota oonventa quae neque contra leges neque dolo malo inita sunt omni modo observanda sunt. Agreements which are not contrary to the laws nor entered in-