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crim. law, pleading. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 7 Pet. S. C. Rep. 160. 2. Every pardon granted to the guilty is in derogation of the law; if the pardon be equitable, the law is, bad; for … [Read more...] about PARDON

One work executed in the intervals of another; a subordinate task. Particularly, the name of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe. … [Read more...] about PARERGON

The judgment of peers; trial by a jury of one's peers or equals. … [Read more...] about PARIUM JUDICIUM

In old English law. Persons who carried about the pope's indulgences, and sold them to any who would buy them. … [Read more...] about PARDONERS

Latin: A person's peers or equals; as the jury for the trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties litigant; and, as the lord's vassals judged each other in the lord's courts, so the sovereign's vassals, or the lords themselves, judged each other in the sovereign's courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349. Pares enria). Peers … [Read more...] about PARES