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Title that is superior to claim of title by others. … [Read more...] about PARAMOUNT TITLE

Engl. law. The daughters of a man or woman seised of lands and tenements in fee simple or fee tail, on whom, after the death of such ancestor, such lands and tenements descend, and they enter. … [Read more...] about PARCENERS

In the practice of legislative bodies, this is the name given to a species of negative proxies, by which two members, who belong to opposite parties or are on opposite sides with regard to a gives question, mutually agree that they will both be absent from voting, either for a specified period or when a division is had on the particular question. By this mutual agreement a vote … [Read more...] about PAIRING-OFF

A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, and stitched. See U. 5. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct 756, 34 L. Ed. 117. … [Read more...] about PAMPHLET

practice. A book or paper containing an abstract of all the facts and pleadings necessary, to the full understanding of a case. 2. Courts of error and other courts, on arguments, require that the judges shall each be furnished with such a paper-book in the court of king's bench, in England, the transcript containing the whole of the proceedings, filed or delivered between the … [Read more...] about PAPER-BOOK