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‖ pari passu, advb. phr.|ˈpɛəraɪ ˈpæsjuː, ˈpɑːriː ˈpæːsuː| [L. = ‘with equal step’.] With equal pace; at an equal rate of progress; side by side; simultaneously and equally. In Law, On an equality, equally, without preference.
1567Sir N. Throkmorton Let. in Robertson Hist. Scot. Wks. 1826 I. 378 note, They think it convenient to proceed with yow both for a while pari passu. 1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. xvi. 88 Let both these bils go pari passu, hand in hand together. 1775J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 356 To..proceed with warlike measures and conciliatory measures pari passu. 1827Jarman Powell's Devises II. 139 Copyholds are now placed pari passu with freeholds. 1890Gladstone Sp. Ho. Commons 19 Feb., The only method of describing pari passu was that adopted by Mr. John Bright..when he said that, when people were content with a pari passu progress, it was like driving six omnibuses abreast down Park-lane. |