APPKOPRIATION
or to some individual purchase or expense.
Terms beginning with "A" (655 total)
APPOINTMENT
as the application of a rule or principle to a case or fact.
APPOINTOR
eambent of an office and invested therewith, by one or more individuals who have the sole power and right to select and constitute the officer. Election means that the person is chosen by & principle of selection in the ...
APPORT
L. Fr. In old English law. Tax; tallage; tribute; imposition; payment; charge; expenses. Kelbam.
APPOSTILLE, or APOSTILLE. In
French law, an addition or annotation matle in the margin of a writing. Merl. Repert.
APPREHENSIO
Lat. In the civil and old English law. A taking hold of a person or thing; apprehension; the seizure or ccapture of a person. Calvin.
APPRENTICIUS AD LEGEM. An ap
prentice to the law; a law student; a counsellor below the degree of serjeant; a barrister. See APPRENTICE EN LA LEY.
APPROBATE AND REPROBATE. In
Scotch law. To approve and reject; to take
APPROPRIATE
1. To make a thing one's vwn; to make a thing the subject of property; to exercise dominion over an object to the extent, and for the purpose, of making it subserve one’s own proper use or pleasure. The term is properl...
APPROPRIATION
APPRIZING. In Scotch law. A form of process by which a creditor formerly took possession of the estates of the debtor in payment of the debt due. It is now superseded by adjudications.
APPROVED INDORSED NOTES
Notes indorsed by another person than the maker, for additional security.
APPROVER
' In criminal law. An accomplice in crime who accuses others of the same offense, and is admitted as a witness at the discretion of the court to give evidence against his companions in guilt. He is vulgarly called “Que...
APPROVER. UL
Fr. prove; to vouch. Kelham.
April, 1884, 9 & 10 Vict
c. 54) the serjeants at law always had the exclusive privilege of practice in that court. Every judge of a common-law court, previous to his elevation to the bench, used ‘to created a serjeant at law; but since the jud...
Apthorp, 12 Mass
256; Queen Ins. Co. v.
AQUA IMMITTENDA
APROVECHAMIENTO. In Spanish law. Approvement, or ‘improvement and enjoyment of public lands. As applied to pueblo lands, it has particular reference to the commons, and includes not only the actual enjoyment of them bu...
AQUAGIUM
law easement of drip. Bellows v. Sackett, 15 Barb. (N. Y.) 96.
ARBITRATOR
pointed by the preetor to examine and decide that class of causes or actions termed “bone fidet,” and who had the power of judging according to the principles of equity, (ex equo et bono;) distinguished from the jude...
ARBOR
Lat. A tree; a plant; some thing larger than an herb; a general term including vines, osiers, and even reeds. The mast of a ship. Brissonius. Timber. Ainsworth; Calvin.
ARBOR CONSANGUINITATIS. A ta
ble, formed in the shape of a tree, showing the genealogy of a family. See the arbor civilis of the civilians and canonists. Hale, Com. Law, 335.
ARCA
Lat. In the civil law. A chest or coffer: a place for keeping money. Dig. 30. 30, 6; Id. 32, 64. Brissonius.
Archambault, 64 Minn
420, 67 N. W. 348, 58
Archb. Crim. Pl
81; Sweet.—Venire facias de novwo. A fresh or new venire, which the court grants when there has been some impropriety or irregularity in returning the jury. or where the verdict is so imperfect or ambiguous that no jud...
Archb. New Pr
(or N. Prac.). Arch-
Archb. Pr
(12th Ed.) 1208. aot (12th Ed.) 1062.—Fieri factas de 25.
ARCHICAPELLANUS
L. Lat. In old Buropean law. A chief or high chancellor, (summus cancellarius.) Spelman.
ARCHIVES
ARCHAIONOMIA. A collection of Saxon laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the Saxon language, with a°* Latin version by Lambard.
ARCHIVIST
selves thus preserved; thus we say the archives of a college, of a monastery, a public office, etc. Texas M. Ry. Co. v. Jarvis, 69
ARCTA ET SALVA CUSTODIA
Lat. In strict and safe custody or keeping. When a defendant is arrested on a capias ad satisfaciendum, (ca. 8a.,) he is to be kept arcte et salva custodi. 3 Bl. Comm. 415.
ARD OF THE UNIVERSITIES. In Eng
lish law. A court constituted for the trial of scholars or privileged persons connected with the university at Oxford or Cambridge who are indicted for treason, felony, or mayhem.
ARDENT SPIRITS
tilled liquors. Sarlis v. U. S., 152 U. S. 570, 14 Sup. Ct. 720, 38 L. Ed. 556; U. S. v. Ellis (D. C.) 51 Fed. 808; State v. Townley, 18 N.
Arehb. Pr. K. B. 208; 1 Burrill, Pr
455.— Jury commissioner. An officer charged with the duty of selecting the names to be put into the jury wheel, or of drawing the panel of jurors for a particular term of court.—Juryt. <A paper containing the names o...
ARENTARE
Lat. To rent; to Jet out at a certain rent. Cowell. Arentatio. A renting.
Arg
Fr. Merc. Law, 547. Fr. Merc. Law, 551. Fr. Merc. Law, 552. Fr. Merc. Law, 562. Fr. Merc. Law. Argles (Napoleon), Treatise Upon French Mercantile Law, ete.
Argentine Min. Co
v. Terrible Min. Co., 122
ARGUMENT AB INCONVENIENTI
An argument arising from the inconvenfence which the proposed construction of the law would create.
ARGUMENTUM A COMMUNITER
ARG. An abbreviation of arguendo.
ARGUMENTUM A DIVISIONE
drawn from things commonly happening is frequent in law. Broom, Max. 44.
ARIERBAN, or ARRIERE-BAN. An
edict of the ancient kings of France and Germany, commanding all their vassals, the noblesse, and the vassals’ vassals, to enter the army, or forfeit their estates on refusal. Spelman.
Ark
18. 648. 209, 54 S. W. 577, 77 Am. St. Rep. 109; Bodie v. Railway Co., 61 S. C. 468, 39 S. E. 715; Martin v. Railroad Co., 118 Iowa, 148, 91 a 1084, 59 L. R. A. 698, 96 Am. St. Rep. 609, 44 S. W. 353.—Board of pardo...
Arkl
(or Arkley). Arkley’s Justiciary Re ports, Scotland.
ARMA
Lat. Arms; weapons, offensive
ARMIGER
being under the protection of their superiors. Military tenants holding lands from the emperor. Spelman.
ARMISCARA
applied, also, to the higher servants in convents. Spelman.
Arms v. Ayer
192 Tl. 601, 61 N. FE. 831, 58
ARRAY 88
ARRAY. The whole body of jurors summoned to attend a court, as they are arrayed or arranged on the panel. Dane, Abr. Index; 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 536; Com. Dig. “Challenge,” B. Durrah v. State, 44 Miss. 789.
ARRESTANDIS BONIS NE DISSI
PENTUR. In old English law. A _ writ which lay for a person whose cattle or goods were taken by another, who during a contest was likely to make away with them, and who had not the ability to render satisfaction.
ARRESTANDO IPSUM QUI PECU
NIAM RECEPIT. In old English law. A writ which issued for apprehending a person who had taken the king's prest money to serve in the wars, and then hid himself in order to avoid going.
ARRESTEE
marshal has served the writ in an action in
ARRESTER
creditor of the latter by the process of arrestment. 2 Kames, Eq. 173, 175.