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• PARCEL (Fr. parcelle, Ital. particella, Lat. particela, diminutive of pars, part)

PARCEL (Fr. parcelle, Ital. particella, See also:

• LAT

Lat. particela, diminutive of pars, See also:

• PART

part)  , a small See also:

• PART

part or See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of anything; particularly, in the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law of real See also:

• PROPERTY

property and See also:

• CONVEYANCING

conveyancing, a portion of a See also:

• MANOR

manor or See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate, and so the name of that portion of a legal document, such as a See also:

• CONVEYANCE

conveyance or See also:

• LEASE (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. laxare, to loosen)

lease See also:

• RELATING

relating to lands, which contains a description of the estate dealt with . The word is also used of a package of goods contained in a wrapping or See also:

• COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover for transmission by See also:

• CARRIAGE

carriage, &c., or by See also:

• POST

post; hence the f erm " See also:

• PARCEL (Fr. parcelle, Ital. particella, Lat. particela, diminutive of pars, part)

parcel-post " for the See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the post-See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office service which deals with the transmission of such packages . " Parcel " was formerly used in an adverbial or quasi-adverbial sense, meaning " partly," " to some extent," thus " parcel-See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant," " parcel-lawyer," &c . This use survives in " parcel-gilt," i.e. partly gilt, a See also:

• TERM

term applied to articles made of See also:

• SILVER

silver with a gilt lining .