PAX REGIS, Eng. law. The king's peace. In ancient times there were certain
limits which were known by this name. The pax regis, or the verge of the
court, as it was afterwards called, extended from the palace gate to the
distance of three miles, three furlongs, three acres, nine feet, nine palms
and nine barleycorns. Crabb's C. L. 41.