Ann. Codes & St. Or
1901, § 682) as distinguished from a copy of it or from extraneous evidence its contents or purport.—Parol evidence. Oral or verbal evidence; that which is given by word of mouth; the ordinary kind of evidence, given ...
Terms beginning with "A" (655 total)
ANNA 71
ANNA. In East Indian coinage, a piece of money, the sixteenth part of a rupee.
ANNALES
Lat. Annuals; a title formerly given to the Year Books.
Anne, c
8, by which the articles of union between the two kingdoms of England and Scotland were ratified and confirmed. 1 Bl. Comm. 97.—Private act. A statute operating only upon particular persons and private concerns, and of...
Anne, vol
11 Modern Reports. Rep.t.Talb. Reports tempore Talbot,
ANNUAL
momenta temporum sed ad dies numeramur. We call a child a year old on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, when the day is fairly begun but not ended, because we caleulate the civil year not by moments, but tain wheth...
ANNULUS
Lat. In old English law. A ring; the ring of a door. Per haspam vel annulum hostit exterioris; by the hasp or ring of the outer door. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 15, § 5.
ANNULUS ET BACULUS
(Lat. ring and staff.) ‘The investiture of a bishop was per annulum et baculum, by the prince’s delivering to the prelate a ring and pastoral staff, or crozier. 1 Bl. Comm. 378; Spelman.
ANNUS
Lat. In civil and old English law. A year; the period of three hundred and sixty-five days. Dig. 40,7, 4,5; Calvin.;
ANNUUS REDITUS
nuity. 2 BI. Comm. 41;
ANSEL
ANSEL, ANSUL,.or AUNCEL. In old English law. An ancient mode of weighing by hanging scales or hooks at either end of a beam or staff, which, being lifted with one's finger or hand by the middle, showed the equality or di...
Answering to the heres factus (g
v.) of the civil law.—Heir collateral. One who is not lineally related to the decedent, but is of collateral kin; ec. g., his uncle, cousin, brother. nephew.—Heir conventional. In the civil law. One who takes a succe...
Ant
(Am. Ed.) 227.. ss ak 47, 77. 35. PRZEPOSITUS. In old English law. 182, 133. 98, 100.
ANTE
Lat. Before. Usually employed in old pleadings as expressive of time, as pre (hefore) was of place, and coram (before) of person. Townsh. Pl. 22.
ANTEA
Lat. Formerly; heretofore.
ANTICHRESIS
country before a revolution, change of government or dynasty,-or other political event, such that the question of his rights, status, or allegiance will depend upon the date of his birth with reference to such event. In ...
ANTICIPATION 74
pawn relates to movables, and the antichresis to immovables. The antichresis must be reduced to writing; and the creditor thereby acquites the right to the fruits, etc., of the immovables, deducting yearly their proceeds...
AO ETIAM
(Lat. And also.) Words ised to introduce the statement of the real cause of action, in those cases where it was necessary to allege a fictitious cause of action to give the court jurisdiction, and also the rea? cause, in...
AOCCREDIT. In international law
(1) To receive as an envoy in his public character, and give him credit and rank accordingly. Burke. (2) To send with credentials as an envoy. Webst. Dict.
AONTEMPT OF CONGRESS
for his indemnity. But criminal contempts are offenses or injuries offered to the court, and a fine or imprisonment is imposed upon the contemnor for the purpose of punishment. Wyatt v. People, 17 Colo. 252, 28 Pac. 961;...
AOT
transferred, is matter in pais. 2 Bl. Comm. 204.—Act of attainder. A legislative act, attainting a person. See ATTAINDER.—Act of bankruptcy. <Any act which renders a person Mable to be proceeded against as a bankrupt...
AoT, infra
r Sine © we ( WILLA. In Hindu law. The relation between a master or patron and his freedman, and the rélation between two persons who had made a reciprocal testamentary contract.
AOTION 27
of land and the goods of his debtor for the satisfaction of the debt, or to enforce a distress. ~—Aoction of abstracted multures. An action for multures or tolls against those who are thirled to a mill, 4. c. bound to ...
APATISATIO
AN agreement or compact. Du Cange. l
APEX
ANTIQUUM DOMINIOCUM. In old English law. Ancient demesne.
APHASIA
side-lines of his location; but he may not go beyond his end-lines or vertical pene drawn downward ibe ae This is ca Kee the apex rule. Rev. St. § 2322 (U. 8. Comp. St. 1901, cies xine v. “Mining Co., 9 Mont. 543, c. ...
APIQUEYA
the dame means by which] a thing is constituted, is it dissolved. 6 Coke, 530.
APOCHA
Lat. In the civil law. A writing acknowledging payments; acquittance. It differs from acceptilation in this: that acceptilation imports a complete discharge of the former obligation whether payment be made or not; apocha...
APOSTLES
DIMISSORY LETTERS. Where a can- ‘didate for holy orders has a title of ordination in one diocese in England, and 1!s to be ordained in another, the bishop of the former diocese gives letters dimissory to the bishop, of...
APOTHECARY 76
APQTHECARY. Any person who keeps a shop or building where medicines are compounded or prepared according to prescriptions of physicians, or where medicines are sold. Act Cong. July 13, 1866, c. 184, § 9, 14
APOTHEOA
APOCHZ. ONERATORLZ. In old commercial law. Bills of lading.
App
627, 42 N. E. 286. 95; Wilson v. Lawrence, 70 Ark. 545, 69 8. W. 570. l 538; Holland v. Dickerson, 41 Iowa, 373; United States v. Ortega, 11 Wheat. 467, 6 L. Bd. 521. 49. 466, 52 N. B. 703. 689, 41 S. W. 826. 60, 6...
App. ; State v. Millain, 3 Nev
App. Div
275, 46 N. Y¥. Supp. 934; Miller v. Insurance Co., 113 Iowa, 211, 8+ N. W. 1049; Washington County v. St. Louis, ete, 374, 58 N; Y. Supp. 114. 170. 83 N. Y. Supp. 130; Ncougale 280, 67 N. Y. Supp. 883; Webb v. 469, ...
APPEAL
APPARLEMENT. In old English law. Resemblance; likelihood; as apparlement of war. St. 2 Rich. II. st. 1, c. 6; Cowell.
Appeal of City of Philadelphia, 112 Pa
470, 4 Atl. 4; Meehan y. Brennan, 16 App. Div. 395, 45 N. ¥. Supp. 57; Brasher v. Marsh, 15
Appeal of Clarke, 70 Conn
195, 39 ‘Atl. 156. At law. An unauthorized assumption and exercise of the right of ownership over goods or personal chattels belonging to another, to the alteration of their condition or the exclusion of the owner’s ...
Appeal of Dawley, 16 R.-I
694, 19 Atl. 248. —Common and solemzu form of probate. In English law, there are two kinds of probate, namely, probate in common form, and
Appeal of Dunham, 27 Conn
205.—Recurrent imsanity. Insanity which returns from time to time, hence equivalent to “lunacy” (see supra) in its common-law sense, as a mental disorder broken by lucid intervals. There is no presumption that fitf...
Appeal of Lewis, 85 Mich
840, 48 N. W. 580, 24 Am. St. Rep. 94; Redemptorist Fathers v.
Appeal of Miles, 68 Conn
237, 36 Atl. 39, 386 L. R. A. 176; Bschbach v. Collins, 61 Md. 499, 48 Am. Rep. 123.
Appeal of Pittsburgh, 115 Pa
4, 7 Atl. 778; Canal Co: y. Railroad Co., 4 Gill & J. (Md.) 1, 30; Baker v. Johnson County, 37 Iowa, 189; Fuller v. Kemp (Com. Pl.) 16 N. Y.
Appeal, 105 Pa
415; People v. Davenport, 30 Hun (N. Y.) 177; In re Slocum, 169 N, Y. 153, 62 N. B. 180; Waring v. Savannah, 60
Appeal, 116 Pa
360, 9 Atl. 441; Ingraham Vv. Hough, 46 N. C. 43.
APPEALED
to a judgment appeal therefrom, the appeal of each 1s called a “cross-appeal” as regards that of the other. 3 Steph. Comm. 581.
Appeals, also vols
1, 2 Texas Civil Appeals. See, also, Williams.
APPELLATIO
Lat. An appeal. APPELLATOR. An old law term having the same meaning as “appellant,” (q. v.) In the civil law, the term was applied to the judge ad quem, or to whom an appeal was taken. Calvin.
APPELLQGQ
Lat. In the civil law. I appeal. The form of making an appeal apud acta. Dig. 49, 1, 2.
APPENDITIA
heirs, of common in such a moor for his beasts levant or couchant upon his manor, the commons are appurtenant to the manor, and the grant will paéssthem. Co. Litt. 1210; Lucas v. Bishop, 15 Lea (Tenn.) 165, 54 Am.
APPENSURA
weight instead of by count.