Latin: A part; a party to a deed, action, or legal proceeding. Pars enitia. In old English law. The privilege or portion of the eldest daughter in the partition of lands by lot-Pars gravata. In old practice. A party aggrieved; the party aggrieved. Hardr. 50; 3 Leon. 237. Pars pro toto. Part for the whole; the name of a part used to represent the whole; as the roof for the house, ten sucars for ten armed men, etc. Pare rationatulis. That part of a man’s .goods which the law gave to his widow and children. 2 Bl. Comm. 492. Pars rea. A party defendant. St Marlbr. c. 18. Pars viscerum matris. Part of the bowels of the mother; i.e., an unborn child.