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See Petit Caps Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The passover; Easter Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Petty serjeanty. (

An afternoon’s exercise or moot for the instruction of young students, bearing the same name originally with the PariMce (little-go) of oxford, […]

Lat Little; but little Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Chlld; offspring; the child just before it is born, or immediately after its birth Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A person concerned or having or taking part in any affair, matter, tranaac-tlon, or proceeding, considered individually. See Pasties Source: Black’s Law […]

A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place thelr moncy. effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of […]

The act of giving birth to a child Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The dividing of lands held by Joint tenants, coparceners, or tenants in common, into distinct portions, so that they may hold them […]

A member of a copartner-ship or firm; one who has united with others to form a partnership In business. See Partnership Source: […]

sification. Formal parties are those who have no interest in the controversy between tbe immediate litigants, but bave an interest in the […]

Lat. In the civil law. Par-tltlon; dlvlslon. Thls word did not always signify dimidium, a dividing into halves. Dig. 50, 16, 164, […]

Span. Part; a part. See Las Partidas Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Tbe persons who take part in the performance of any act, or who are directly Interested in any affair, eontract, or conveyance, […]

This term, as nsed fn law, is almost always opposed to “general,” and means either individual, local, partial, special, or belonglng to […]

The details of a claim, or the separate Items of an account, when these are stated in an orderly form, for the […]

Lat A participant; a sharer; anciently, a part owner, or parcener Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A small piece of land Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Relating to or constituting a part; not complete; not entire or universal Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in Roman law. A legatee who was entitled, hy the directions of the will, to receive a share or portion of […]

Lat. The party not having appeared. The condition of a cause called “default.” Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old pleading. The parties to the fine had nothing; that is, had no estate which could be conveyed by lt. A […]

In French law. A division made between co-proprietors of a particular estate held by them in common. It is the operation by […]