ln English law. A bag or purse. Thus there is the petty-bag-ofTice in the com-mou-law jurisdiction of the court of chau-cery, because all original writs relating to the business of the crown were formerly kept iu a little sack or bag, in parvd bagd. 1 Madd. Ch. 4
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
