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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARCEL (Fr. parcelle, Ital. particella,
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Lat. particela, diminutive of pars,
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part)
  , a small
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part or division of anything; particularly, in the law of real
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property and
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conveyancing, a portion of a
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manor or estate, and so the name of that portion of a legal document, such as a
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conveyance or lease
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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 cover for transmission by
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carriage, &c., or by
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post; hence the f erm " parcel-post " for the branch of the post-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-
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Protestant," " parcel-lawyer," &c . This use survives in " parcel-gilt," i.e. partly gilt, a
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term applied to articles made of
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silver with a gilt lining .

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