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in the parlance of the English bar societies, is an attendant or domestic who waits at table and &ives bread, (panis,) wine, and other necessary things to those who are dining.. The phrase was in familiar use among the knights templar, and from them has been handed down to the learned societies of the inner and middle temples, who at the present day occupy the halls and … [Read more...] about PANIER

formerly were the court of common pleas at Lancaster, the chancery court of Lancaster, and the court of pleas at Durham, the second of which alone now exists. (See the respective titles.) Sweet. … [Read more...] about PALATINE COURTS

A common of pannage Is the right of feeding swine on mast and acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest. Elton, Commons, 25; Williams, Common, 168. Pannagium est pastus porcorum, In nemoribus et in silvis, ut puta, de glan dibns, etc. 1 Bulst 7. A pannagium is a pasture of hogs, in woods and forests, upon acorns, and so forth. … [Read more...] about PANNAGE

Lat. A palace. The emperor's house in Rome was so called from the Mons Palatinus on which it was built. Adams, Rom. Ant. 613. … [Read more...] about PALATIUM

Scotch law. A person, accused of a crime; one indicted. … [Read more...] about PANNEL