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Pais in Historical Law

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Pais in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

Also Pays. French. Country. Also in Spanish (only “Pais”).

Note: This legal definition of Pais in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

Concept of “Pais”

Traditional meaning of pais in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) The country; the jury; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 294. In pais: open; in the country; see MATTER IN PAIS. Trial per pais: by the jury; see 3 Bl. Cmn. 349; 4 id. 349.

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Notes and References

1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Pais”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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