P

Latin: A legislative body in general or the English parliament in particular. Parliamentnm diabolicnm. A parliament held at Coventry, 38 Hen. VI., wherein Edward, Earl of March, (afterwards King Edward IV.,) and many of the chief nobility were attainted, was so called; but the acts then made were annulled by the succeeding parliament. Jacob. Parliamentnm indoctnm. Unlearned or … [Read more...] about PARLIAMENTUM

Also known as the PKPA, this is a federal law that seeks to prevent parents from taking their children (usually in the midst of a bitter divorce) and fleeing to another state and hoping to obtain the benefits of protection in that state. This requires that all states ensure that parents are in compliance with the PKPA and will not enforce orders in a foreign state in favor of a … [Read more...] about PARENTAL KIDNAPPING PREVENTION ACT

Latin: For the like reason; by like mode of reasoning. o Paria copulantur paribus. Like things unite with like, pac Max. Paribus sententiis reus absolvitor. Where the opinions are equal, [where the court is equally divided,] the defendant is acquitted. 4 Inst 64. … [Read more...] about PARI RATIONE

Relating or belonging to a parish. Parochial chapels. In English law. Places of public worship in which the rites of sacrament and sepulture are performed. … [Read more...] about PAROCHIAL

For two lines of street railway to be "parallel," within the meaning of a statute, it may not be necessary that the two lines should be parallel for the whole length of each or either route. Exact parallelism is not contemplated. Cronin v. Highland St Ry. Co., 144 Mass. 254, 10 N. E. 833. And see East St. Louis Connecting Ry. Co. v. Jarvis, 92 Fed. 785, 34 C. C. A. 639; … [Read more...] about PARALLEL