KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

PASSENGER

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PARVUM OAPE

or exchange. Uttering it is a declaration that it is good, with an intention to pass, or an offer to pass it. PASS, tu Permission to pass; a license to go or come; a certificate, emanating from authority, wherein it is declared that a des ignated person is permitted to go beyond cer tain boundaries which, without such author ity, he could not lawfully pass. Also a ticket issued by a railroad or other transportation company, authorizing a designated person to travel free on its lines, between certain points or for a limited time. PASS-BOOK. A book in which a bank or banker enters the deposits made by a cus tomer, and which is retained by the latter. Also a book in which a merchant enters the items of sales on credit to a customer, and which the latter carries or keeps with him. PASSAGE. A way over water; an ease ment giving the right to pass over a piece of private water. Travel by sea; a voyage over water; the carriage of passengers by water; money paid for such carriage. Enactment; the act of carrying a bill or resolution through a legislative or delibera tive body in accordance with the prescribed forms and requisites; the emergence of the bill in the form of a law, or the motion in the form of a resolution. PASSAGE COURT. An ancient court of record in Liverpool, once called the "may or's court of pays sage" but now usually called the "court of the passage of the bor ough of Liverpool." This court was for merly held before the mayor and two bailiffs of the borough, and had jurisdiction in ac tions where the amount in question exceeded forty shillings. Mozley & Whitley. PASSAGE MONEY. The fare of a pas senger by sea; money paid for the transpor tation of persons in a ship or vessel; as dis tinguished from "freight" or "freight-mon ey," which is paid for the transportation of goods and merchandise. PASSAGIO. An ancient writ addressed to the keepers of the ports to permit a man who had the king's leave to pass over sea. Reg. Orig. 193. PASSAGIUM REGIS. A voyage or ex pedition to the Holy Land made by the kings of England in person. CowelL PASSATOR. He who has the interest or command of the passage of a river; or a lord to whom a duty is paid for passage. Whar ton. PASSENGER. A person whom a com mon carrier has contracted to carry from one place to another, and has, in the course of

PARVUM CAPE. See PETIT CAFE. PAS. In French. Precedence; right of going foremost PASCH. The passover; Easter. PASCHA. In old English law and prac tice. Easter. De termino Paschce, of the term of Easter. Bract fol. 2466. —Pascha clausum. The octave of Easter, or Low-Sunday, which closes that solemnity.— Pasoha floridum. The Sunday before Easter, called "Palm-Sunday."—Pascha rents. In English ecclesiastical law. Yearly tributes paid by the clergy to the bishop or archdeacon at their Easter visitations. PASCTJA. A particular meadow or pas ture land set apart to feed cattle. PASCTJA SILVA. In the civil law. A feeding wood; a wood devoted to the feeding of cattle. Dig. 50, 16, 30, 5. PASCUAGE. The grazing or pasturage. of cattle. PASS, v. 1. In practice. To utter or pro nounce; as when the court passes sentence upon a prisoner. Also to proceed; to be ren dered or given; as when judgment is said to pass for the plaintiff in a suit. 2. In legislative parlance, a bill or resolu tion is said to pass when it is agreed to or enacted by the house, or when the body has sanctioned its adoption by the requisite ma jority of votes; in the same circumstances, the body is said to pass the bill or motion. 3. When an auditor appointed to examine into any accounts certifies to their correct ness, he is said to pass them; i. e., they pass through the examination without being detained or sent back for inaccuracy or im perfection. Brown. 4. The term also means to examine into anything and then authoritatively determine the disputed questions which it involves. In this sense a jury is said to pass upon the rights or issues in litigation before them. 5. In the language of conveyancing, the term means to move from one person to an other; to be transferred or conveyed from one owner to another; as in the phrase "the word 'heirs' will pass the fee." 6. To publish; utter; transfer; circulate; impose fraudulently. This is the meaning of the word when the offense of passing coun terfeit money or a forged paper is spoken of. "Pass," "utter," "publish," and "sell" are in some respects convertible terms, and, in a given case, "pass" may include utter, publish', and sell. The words "uttering" and "passing, used of notes, do not necessarily import that they are transferred as genuine. The words include any delivery of a note to another for value, with in tent that it shall be put into circulation as money. U. S. v. Nelson, 1 Abb. (U. S.) 135, Fed. Oas. No. 15,861. Passing a paper is putting it off in payment