PARTNERS, contracts. Persons who have united together and formed a partnership. 2. Every person sui juris is competent to contract the relation of a p...
PARTITION, conveyancing. A deed of partition is, one by which lands held in joint tenancy, coparcenary, or in common, are divided into distinct portio...
PARTIES TO A SUIT IN EQUITY. The person who seeks a remedy in chancery by suit, commonly called a plaintiff, and the person against whom the remedy is...
PARTIES TO ACTIONS. Those persons who institute actions for the recovery of their rights, and those persons against whom they are instituted, are the ...
PARTIES, contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement. 2. All persons generally...
PARTICEPS FRAUDIS. fraud. Both parties be in pari delicto is not allowed to allege his own turpitude in such cases, when defendant at law, or prevente...
PAROL LEASES. An agreement made verbally, not in writing, between the parties, by which one of them leases to the other a certain estate. 2. By the En...
PARIUM JUDICIUM. The trial by jury , or by a man's peers, or equals, is so called. PARK, Eng. law. An enclosed chase (q.v.) extending only over a ...
PARENTAGE. Kindred. Vide 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1955; Branch; Line. PARENTS. The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of. 1 Murph. R. 336; 11 S. &am...
PARAVAIL. Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail...