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Paralegal
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ParalegalA person who is not a lawyer or is not acting in that capacity but who provides a limited number of legal services. Each country differs in the authority it gives paralegals in exercising what traditionally would be lawyers' work.
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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Lawyer
A person licensed to practice law; other words for "lawyer" include: attorney, counsel, solicitor and barrister.
Capacity
This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
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Parage
Equality of name or blood, but more especially of land in the partition of an inheritance among co-heirs, hence comes disparage and disparagement.
Paragium
A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived from the adjective par, equal, and made a substantive by the addition of agium;
Paramount
That which is superior.
Paraphernalia
The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her hushand's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life.
Paratitla
Civil law. An abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of the Code or Digest.
Paratum habeo
A return made by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, which signified that he had the defendant ready to bring into court. This was a fiction where the defendant was at large. Afterwards be was required by statute to take bail from the defendant, and he returned cepi corpus and bail bond. But still he might be ruled to bring in the body.
Paravail
Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail, because it is presumed he has the avails or profits of the land.
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Par
Common law. Equal. It is used to denote a state of equality or equal value. Bills of exchange, stocks, and the like, are at par when they sell for their nominal value; above par, or below par, when they sell for more or less.
Par delictum
(United Kingdom) Equal fault.
Par value shares
Shares issued by a company which have a minimum price. Shares which are without par value or "non par value shares" are shares which may be sold at whatever price the company's board of directors decides.
Parage
Equality of name or blood, but more especially of land in the partition of an inheritance among co-heirs, hence comes disparage and disparagement.
Paragium
A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived from the adjective par, equal, and made a substantive by the addition of agium;
Paralegal
Paramount
That which is superior.
Paraphernalia
The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her hushand's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life.
Paratitla
Civil law. An abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of the Code or Digest.
Paratum habeo
A return made by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, which signified that he had the defendant ready to bring into court. This was a fiction where the defendant was at large. Afterwards be was required by statute to take bail from the defendant, and he returned cepi corpus and bail bond. But still he might be ruled to bring in the body.
Paravail
Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail, because it is presumed he has the avails or profits of the land.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Lawyer
A person licensed to practice law; other words for "lawyer" include: attorney, counsel, solicitor and barrister.
Capacity
This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Parage
Equality of name or blood, but more especially of land in the partition of an inheritance among co-heirs, hence comes disparage and disparagement.
Paragium
A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived from the adjective par, equal, and made a substantive by the addition of agium;
Paramount
That which is superior.
Paraphernalia
The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her hushand's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life.
Paratitla
Civil law. An abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of the Code or Digest.
Paratum habeo
A return made by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, which signified that he had the defendant ready to bring into court. This was a fiction where the defendant was at large. Afterwards be was required by statute to take bail from the defendant, and he returned cepi corpus and bail bond. But still he might be ruled to bring in the body.
Paravail
Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail, because it is presumed he has the avails or profits of the land.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Par
Common law. Equal. It is used to denote a state of equality or equal value. Bills of exchange, stocks, and the like, are at par when they sell for their nominal value; above par, or below par, when they sell for more or less.
Par delictum
(United Kingdom) Equal fault.
Par value shares
Shares issued by a company which have a minimum price. Shares which are without par value or "non par value shares" are shares which may be sold at whatever price the company's board of directors decides.
Parage
Equality of name or blood, but more especially of land in the partition of an inheritance among co-heirs, hence comes disparage and disparagement.
Paragium
A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived from the adjective par, equal, and made a substantive by the addition of agium;
Paralegal
Paramount
That which is superior.
Paraphernalia
The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her hushand's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life.
Paratitla
Civil law. An abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of the Code or Digest.
Paratum habeo
A return made by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, which signified that he had the defendant ready to bring into court. This was a fiction where the defendant was at large. Afterwards be was required by statute to take bail from the defendant, and he returned cepi corpus and bail bond. But still he might be ruled to bring in the body.
Paravail
Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail, because it is presumed he has the avails or profits of the land.
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