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SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE,
STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE.
BOSTON, U. S. A.: THE BOSTON BOOK CO.

1903.

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THE

JUDICIAL DICTIONARY.

P-PACKET

P.—V. Per PROCURATION.

P. A.-V. PARTICULAR AVERAGE.

P. P. I.-"P. P. I." Policy; V. HONOUR.

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PACIFIC. In a SLIP," the Pacific" does not mean all Ports on the West Coast of North, Central, or South, America; what it means in any particular case depends on the circumstances and course of dealing (Royal Ex. Assrce v. Tod, 8 Times Rep. 669); in the it meant, all the Ports on the west coast of South America.

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That which is a "PAPER WRAPPER" within s. 6, Margarine Act, 1887, cannot also be a "Package" within the same section (Toler v. Bischop, 65 L. J. M. C. 4; 73 L. T. 403; 60 J. P. 9). V. MARGARINE.

Quà Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Acts, 1861 to 1892, “Package,' shall mean and include, any box, basket, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, bag, wrapper, or other thing, in which fish is placed for the purpose of carriage consignment or exportation " (s. 6, 55 & 56 V. c. 50). Similar Package; V. SIMILAR.

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PACKER. "This is a term well understood in London, and means, a person employed by merchants to receive, and (in some instances) to select, goods for them from manufacturers, dyers, calenderers, &c, and pack the same for exportation" (Arch. Bank., 11 ed., 37).

PACKET.-V. PACKAGE: PARCEL: POST LETTER.

Quà Post Office Offences Act, 1837, 1 V. c. 36, "Packet" includes LETTER (s. 47); V. same section for interp of "Packet Postage,' ""Packet Letter," ," "Packet Boats," and " Post Office Packets." Quà Post Office Act, 1875, 38 & 39 V. c. 22, " Postal Packet," " means, a letter, post-card, newspaper, book-packet, pattern or sample packet, circular, legal and commercial document, packet of photographs, and

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every packet or article which is not, for the time being, prohibited by or in pursuance of the Post Office Acts from being sent by post: Every Postal Packet shall be deemed to be a Post Letter within," 1 V. c. 36 (s. 10): Vf, 47 & 48 V. c. 76, s. 20; 54 & 55 V. c. 46, s. 12. A REPLY Post Card, or any part thereof, which may be again transmitted through the post without further payment, shall be deemed to be a 'Postal Packet,' within the meaning of " the Post Office (Duties) Acts (s. 2, 45 & 46 V. c. 2). V. POST OFFICE.

"INLAND" Postal Packet, means a Postal Packet "posted within the UNITED KINGDOM and addressed to some place in the United Kingdom" (s. 11, 38 & 39 V. c. 22), and quà that Act, "United Kingdom " includes, "the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man " (s. 12).

PAID. "Paid," like "PAYMENT," is, generally, satisfied by something being given or done which is MONEY'S WORTH, e.g. of the payment of a Legacy as in Coombe v. Trist (1 My. & C. 69) and A-G. v. Loscombe (5 H. & N. 564; 29 L. J. Ex. 305); or of an "estate" for which at least £30 shall be "bonâ fide paid" so as to obtain a Pauper Settlement, s. 5, 9 G. 1, c. 7 (R. v. Belford, 3 B. & S. 662; 32 L. J. M. C. 156).

A testamentary direction that all legacies are to be "paid " free of Legacy Duty, will be read as including the idea of satisfaction, transfer, or delivery, so that chattels, stock, or shares, the subject of a specific legacy, will, like payment of a pecuniary legacy, have to be delivered or transferred free of duty to the legatee (Ansley v. Cotton, 16 L. J. Ch. 55: Re Johnston, Cockerell v. Essex, 53 L. J. Ch. 645; 26 Ch. D. 538; 32 W. R. 634).

A testamentary direction that Debts are to be "paid " (whether Legacies are also mentioned or not) prevents the presumption that a legacy to a Creditor is in satisfaction of his claim (Re Huish, Bradshaw v. Huish, 59 L. J. Ch. 135; 43 Ch. D. 260; disapproving Edmunds v. Low, 3 K. & J. 318; 26 L. J. Ch. 432).

V. PAY.

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Articles of a Co which empower the declaration of Dividends to be paid" to Members, do not authorize the issue of Bonds for Dividends (Wood v. Odessa W. W. Co, 42 Ch. D. 636; 58 L. J. Ch. 628: Hoole v. G. W. Ry, 3 Ch. 262).

V. TO BE PAID: PAYABLE: PAYMENT.

A Bill of Sale "truly sets forth its consideration " (s. 8, Bills of S. Act, 1882), if the money therein stated to be "paid " did not actually pass in cash, but was a sum owing by the grantor to the grantee for unpaid purchase-money of the chattels therein comprised (Ex p. Bolland, 52 L. J. Ch. 113; 21 Ch. D. 543; 31 W. R. 102). V. TRULY SET FORTH: Now, p. 1296.

In a Charter-Party agreeing to pay the highest sum proved to have

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