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Pari delicto






Pari delicto

Criminal law. In a similar offence or crime; equal in guilt. A person who is in pari delicto with another, differs from a particeps criminis in this, that the former always includes the latter but the latter does not always include the former.

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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

Offence
Crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor, but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty.

Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.

Guilt
Criminal law. That quality which renders criminal and liable to punishment; or it is that disposition to violate the law, which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of innocence.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.



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Pari materia
Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other.

Pari passu
By the same gradation.

Parish
A district of country of different extents. In the ecclesiastical law it signified the territory committed to the charge of a parson, vicar, or other minister.

Parium judicium
The trial by jury , or by a man's peers, or equals, is so called.



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Kindred.

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The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of.

Pares
A man's equals; his peers.

Pares curie
Feudal law. Those vassals who were bound to attend the lord's court were so called.

Pari delicto

Pari materia
Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other.

Pari passu
By the same gradation.

Parish
A district of country of different extents. In the ecclesiastical law it signified the territory committed to the charge of a parson, vicar, or other minister.

Parium judicium
The trial by jury , or by a man's peers, or equals, is so called.

Park
Engish law. An enclosed chase extending only over a man's own grounds. The term park signifies an enclosure.

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