KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PARESIS

PARK

PARESIS. In medical jurisprudence. Progressive general paralysis, involving or leading to the form of insanity known as "dementia paralytica." Popularly, but not very correctly, called "softening of the brain." See INSANITY. Lat. With equal right; upon an equal footing; equivalent in rights or claims. PARI CAUSA. PARI MATERIA. Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Abr. "Statute," I, 3. Lat. By an equal prog ress; equably; ratably; without preference. Coote, Mortg. 56. La t PARI PASSU. PARI DELICTO. See IN PABI DELICTO. La t In equal fault

both subsist together in the same territory, and be composed of the same persons. Milford v. Godfrey, 1 Pick. (Mass.) 91. In Louisiana. A teiTitorial division of the state corresponding to what is elsewhere called a "county." See Sherman v. Parish of Vermillion, 51 La. Ann. 880, 25 South. 538; Attorney General v. Detroit Common Council, 112 Mich. 148, 70 N. W. 450, 37 L. R. A. 211. —Parish apprentice. In English law. The children of parents unable to maintain 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 ap plied sometimes to a select body of Christians, forming a local spiritual association, and some times to the building in which the public wor ship of the inhabitants of a parish is celebrat ed ; but the true legal notion of a parochial church is a consecrated place, having attached to it the rights of burial and the administration of the sacraments. Story, J., Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch, 326, 3 L. Ed. 735.—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.—Par ish constable. A petty constable exercising his functions within a given parish. Mozley & Whitley.—Parish court. The name of a court established in each parish in Louisiana, and cor responding to the county courts or common pleas courts in the other states. It has a limited civil jurisdiction, besides general probate powers.— Parish officers. Church-wardens, overseers, and constables.—Parish priest. In English law. The parson ; a minister who holds a par ish as a benefice. If the predial tithes are ap propriated, he is called "rector;" if impropriat ed, "vicar." Wharton. Members of a parish. In England, for many purposes they form a body politic. PARISHIONERS. Parinm eadem est ratio, idem jus. Of things equal, the reason is the same, and the same is the law. The judgment of peers; trial by a jury of one's peers or equals. A tract of inclosed ground privileged for keeping wild beasts of the chase, particularly deer; an inclosed 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 Riverside v. MacLain, 210 111. 308, 71 N. E. 408, 66 L. R, A. 288, 102 Am. St Rep. 164; People v. Green, 52 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 440; Archer r. Salinas City, 93 Cal. 43, 28 Pac. 839, 16 PARIUM JUDICIUM. PARK. In English law. PARITOR. A beadle; a summoner to the courts of civil law.

PARI RATIONE.

Lat. For the like

reason; by like mode of reasoning.

Paria oopulantur paribus. unite with like. Bac. Max.

Like things

Paribus absolvitor. Where the opinions are equal, [where the court is equally divided,] the defendant is acquitted. 4 Inst. 64. Rela tions. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 7, c. 5, § 2. sententiis reus PARIENTES. In Spanish law.

PARIES.

Lat ID the civil law. A wall.

Paries est, sive murus, sive maceria

est.

Dig. 50, 16, 157. —Paries communis. party-wall. Dig. 29, 2, 39.

a

A common wall;

PARIS, DECLARATION OF.

See

DECLARATION.

PARISH. A circuit of ground, committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. 1 Bl. Comm. 111. Wilson v. State, 34 Ohio St. 199. 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, subject 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 estab lished solely for the purpose of maintaining public worship, and its powers are limited to that object. It may raise money for building and keeping in repair its meeting-house and sup porting its minister, but for no other purpose. A town, is a civil and political corporation, es tablished for municipal purposes. They may In English law.