PAROLE

In military law. A promise given by a prisoner of war, when he ha1 leave to depart from custody, that he w111 return at the time appointed, unle discharged. Webster. An engagement by a prisoner of war, upon being set at liberty, that he will not again take up arms against the government b;r whose forces he was captured, either for a limited period or while, hostilities continue. [s. 880]