KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PARAGE

PANI8

PAN1S. In old English law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 9. A common of pannage Is the right of feeding swine on mast and acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest. Elton, Commons, 25; Wil liams, Common, 168. Pannagium est pastus porcorum, In nemoribus et in silvis, ut puta, de glan dibns, etc. 1 Bulst 7. A pannagium is a pasture of hogs, in woods and forests, upon acorns, and so forth. La t PANNAGE. PANTOMIME. A dramatic performance in which gestures take the place of words. See 3 C. B. 871. A written or printed document or instrument A document filed or intro duced in evidence in a suit at law, as, in the phrase "papers In the case" and in "pa pers on appeal." Any writing or printed document, including letters, memoranda, le gal or business documents, and books of account, as in the constitutional provision which protects the people from unreason able searches and seizures in respect to their "papers" as well as their houses and per sons. A written or printed evidence of debt particularly a promissory note or a bill of exchange, as in the phrases "accommoda tion paper" and "commercial paper." In English practice. The list of causes or cases intended for argument, called "the paper of causes." 1 Tidd, Pr. 504. —Accommodation paper. See that title Commercial paper. See COMMERCIAL.— Pa Ser blockade. 'See BLOCKADE.— Paper ook. In practice. A printed collection or abstract in methodical order, of the pleadings, evidence, exhibits, and proceedings in a cause, or whatever else may be necessary to a full understanding of it, prepared for the use of the judges upon a hearing or argument on ap- ! >eal. Copies of the proceedings on an issue in aw or demurrer, of cases, and of the proceedings • on error, prepared for the use of the judges, and delivered to them previous to bringing the cause to argument. 3 Bl. Comm, 317; Archb. New Pr. 353; 5 Man. & G. 98. In proceedings on ap peal or error in a criminal case, copies of the proceedings with a note of the points intended to be argued, delivered to the judges by the par ties before the argument Archb. Crim. PI. 205; Sweet.— Paper credit. Credit given on the security of any written obligation purport ing to represent property.— Paper days. In English law. Certain days in term-time appoint ed by the courts for hearings or arguments in the cases set down in the various special papers. —Paper money. Bills drawn by a govern ment against its own credit, engaging to pay money, but which do not profess to be immedi ately convertible into specie, and which are put into compulsory circulation as a substitute for coined money.— Paper office. In English law. Afl ancient office in the palace of Whitehall, wjiere all the public writings, matters of state and council, proclamations, letters, intelligen ces, negotiations of the queen's ministers abroad, PAPER. PANNEXATION. The act of impanel ing a jury.

and generally all the papers and dispatches that pass through the offices of the secretaries of state, are deposited. Also an office or room in the court of queen's bench where the rec ords belonging to that court are deposited; sometimes called "paper-mill." Wharton.— Pa per title. See TITLE. One who adheres to the com munion of the Church of Rome. The word seems to be considered by the Roman Catho lics themselves as a nickname of reproach, originating In their maintaining the supreme ecclesiastical power of the pope. Wharton. In commercial law. Equal; equal ity. An equality subsisting between the nominal or face value of a bill of exchange, share of stock, etc., and its actual selling value. When the values are thus equal, the instrument or share is said to be "at par;" if it can be sold for more than its nominal worth, it is "above par;" if for less, it is "below par." Ft. Edward V. Fish, 156 N. Y. 363, 50 N. E. 973; Evans v. Tillman, 38 S. In mercantile law. The precise equality or equivalency of any given sum or quantity of money in the coin of one country, and the like sum or quantity of money in the coin of any other, foreign country into which it is to be exchanged, supposing the mon ey of such country to be of the precise weight and purity fixed by the mint standard of the respective countries. Story, Bills, § 30. Mur phy v. Kastner, 50 N. J. Eq. 220, 24 Atl. 564; Blue Star S. S. Co. v. Keyser (D. C.) 81 Fed. 510. The par of the currencies of any two countries means the equivalence of a certain amount of the currency of the one in the cur rency of the other, supposing the currency of both to be of the precise weight and purity fix ed by their respective mints. The exchange be tween the two countries is said to be at par when bills are negotiated on this footing; •. e., when a bill for £100 drawn, on London sells in Paris for 2,520 frs., and vice versa, Bowen, Pol. Econ. 284. Lat. Equal. —Par delictum. Equal guilt. "This is not a case of par delictum. It is oppression on one side and submission on the other. It never earn be predicated as par delictum when one holds the rod and the other bows to it." 6 Maule & S. 165.— Par oneri. Equal to the burden or charge; equal to the detriment or damage. Par in parent imperinm non habet. Jenk. Cent 174. An equal has no dominion over an equal. PARACHRONISM. Error In the com putation of time. The tenure between par ceners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday. An equal ity of blood or dignity, but more especially of land, in the partition of an inheritance between co-heirs; more properly, however, an equality of condition among nobles, or PAPIST. PAR. C. 238, 17 S. E. 49. —Par of exchange. PAR. PARACIUM. PARAGE, or PARAGIUM.