By paper money is understood the engagements to pay money which are issued by governments and banks, and which pass as money. Pardes. Dr. Com. n. 9. Bank notes are generally considered as cash, and win answer, all the purposes of currency; but paper money is not a legal tender if objected to. … [Read more...] about PAPER MONEY
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PAIRING-OFF
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
PAMPHLET
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
PAPER-BOOK
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
PAIS OR PAYS
A French word signifying country. In law, matter in pais is matter of fact in opposition to matter of record: a trial per pais, is a trial by the country, that is, by a jury. … [Read more...] about PAIS OR PAYS