Crossword-Solution: PAROL 5 letters, 41 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The rule was laid down, "by parol the party is not obliged." /1/ But the old debts were not conceived of as raised by a promise.

That action did not remain, as formerly, the remedy for all binding contracts to pay money, but, so far as parol contracts were concerned, could only be used where the consideration was a benefit actually received by the promisor.

Thus, where a man had granted that he would be bound in one hundred shillings to pay his servant on a certain day for his services, and for payments made by the servant on his account, it was argued that there was no contract precedent, and that by parol the party is not obliged; and, further, that, so far as appeared, the payments were made by the servant out of his own head and at no request, from which no duty could commence.

And then there was “parol” evidence, and plenty of it; witnesses who remembered everything about it,--namely, Manuel, Miguel, and the all-recollecting De Haro; here were details, poetical and suggestive; and Dame-Quicklyish, as when his late Excellency, sitting not “by a sea-coal fire,” but with aguardiente and cigarros, had sworn to him, the ex-ecclesiastic Miguel, that he should grant, and had granted, Garcia's request.

But we have agreed not to fight.” “So, if you caught him to-night, you could have him hung as a spy?” “Yes, colonel; but nothing would induce me to betray him.” “Ah!” “I have given him my parol, that he shall have safe conduct!” I laughed, bade Nighthawk good-bye, and left him smiling as I had found him.