ADMIRALITAS
L. Lat. Admiralty; the admiralty, or court of admiralty.
Terms beginning with "A" (655 total)
ADMORTIZATION 46
ADMORTIZATION. The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mortmain, in the feudal customs.
ADOPTIVUS
Lat. Adoptive. Applied both to the parent adopting, and the child adopted. Inst. 2, 13, 4; Id. 3, 1, 10-14.
ADS
which means “at the suit of.” Sewing Mach. Co., 86 IIL 11.
ADSCENDENTES
Lat. In the civil law. Ascendants. Dig. 23, 2, 68; Cod. 5, 5, 6
ADULTER
Lat. One who corrupts; one who seduces another man’s wife. Adulter solidorum. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter. Calvin.
ADULTERATOR
Lat. Ja. the: civil law. <A forger; a counterfeiter. . Adulteratores monete, counterfeiters of guns: Dig. 48, 19, 16, 9. ae a
ADULTERINE. Begotten
in an eaviber ous intercourse. In. tke. Koman, and canon law, adulterine bastards were - distinguished from such as were, the issue .of two unmarried persons, and the,.fprmer were treated. with more severity, nat being. ...
ADULTEROUS - ‘BASTARDY. Adul
terous bastards: are * thoge produced by‘ an unlawful connection between. two persons, who, at the time when the child was conceived, were, either of them or both, connected by marriage with. some POE person.
ADVANCEMENT
latter’s benefit, by way of anticipation of the share which the child will inherit in the father’s estate and intended to be deducted therefrom. It is the latter circumstance which differentiates an advancement from ...
ADVENTITIOUS
Lat. Fortuitous; incidental; that which comes from an unusual source. Adventitia bona are goods which fall to a man otherwise than by inheritance. Adventitia dos is a dowry or portion given by some friend other than the ...
ADVERSARIA
(From Lat. adverse, things remarked or ready at hand.) Rough memoranda, common-place books.
ADVERSARY PROCEEDING. One
having opposing parties; contested, as distinguished from an ex parte application; one of which the party seeking relief has given Jegal warning to the other party, and afforded the latter an opportunity to contest it.
ADVERSE
ADVENTITIOUS. That which comes incidentally, fortuitously, or out of the regular course. “Adventitious value” of lands, see Central R. Co. v. State Board of Assessors, 49 N. J. Law, 1, 7 Atl. 306.
ADVERSE PARTY 43
ADVERSE PARTY. An “adverse party” entitled to notice of appeal is every party whose Interest in relation to the judgment or decree appealed from is in confilct with the modification or reversal sought by the appeal; ...
ADVERTISEMENTS OF QUEEN
ELIZABETH. Certain articles or: ordinances drawn up by Archbishop Parker and some of the bishops in 1564, at the request of Queen Elizabeth, the object of which was to enforce decency and uniformity in the ritual of the ...
ADVISARE, ADVISARI
tIat. To consult, deliberate, consider, advise; to be advised. Occurring in the phrase curia advtsari vult, (usually abbreviated cur. adv. vult, or C. A. V.,) the court wishes to be advised, or to consider of the matter.
ADVOCARE
Lat. To defend; to one’s aid; to vouch; to warrant.
ADVOCASSIE
L. Fy. The office of an advocate: advocacy. Kelham.
ADVOCATIONE DECIMARUM. A
writ which lay for tithes, demanding the fourth part or upwards, that belonged to any church.
ADVOOATI ECCLESIZ
as public prosecutor in any court in Scotland, where any person can be tried for an offense, or in any action where the crown is interested. Wharton.Advocate, Queen’s. A member of the College of Advocates, appointed by...
ADVOWSON
‘PRESENTEE. In ecclesiastical law. A clerk who has been presented by his patron to a bishop in order to be instituted in a church.
AFFERMER. IL
Fr. To let to farm. Also to make saure, to establish or confirm. Kelham.
AFFIDAVIT
affectum, on account of a suspicion of bies or favor. 3 Bl. Comm. 868; Co. Litt. 156.
AFFIDAVIT 47
906, 62 Am. St. Rep. 385; Hays v. Loomis, 84 Ill. 18,
AFFILARE
L. Lat. To file or afiile.
AFFILE. A term employed in old
practice, signifying to put on file. 2 Maule & 8. 202. In modern usage it is contracted to Ale. :
AFFINITAS
Lat. Inthe civil law. Affinity; relationship by marriage. Inst. 1, 10, 6.
AFFIRMANCE
arising from marriage which is neither consaninity nor affinity. Chinn v. State, 47 Ohio t. 575, 26 N. E. 11 L. R. A. 680. pellate court of a Judgment, order, or decree of a lower court brought before it for review. See...
AFFIRMANCE DAY GENERAL. In
the English court of exchequer, is a day appointed by the judges of the common pleas, and barons of the exchequer, to be held a few days after the beginning of every term for the general affirmance or reversal of judgmen...
Affletur, let it be filed
8 Coke, 160. De recordo afflatum, affiled of record. 2 Ld
AFFRANOBISE
tive in favor of the adverse petty. Fields v.
AFFRAY
AFFRAY. In criminal law. The fighting of two or more persons in some public place to the terror of the people. Burton vy. Com., 60 S. W. 526, 22 Ky. Law Rep. 1315: Thompson v. State, 70 Ala. 26; State vy. Allen, 11 N. C....
AFFRETEMENT
Fr. In French law. The hiring of a vessel; affreightment. Called also nolissement. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 2, art. 2; Id. liv. 3, tit. 1, art. 1.
Afi
254, 11 Am. St. Rep. 882; Lumber Co. v. Green, 76 Mich. 820, 48 N. W. 576; Gasper v. Heimbach, 50 Minn. 102, 60 N. W. 1080; Boom Corp. v. Whiting, 29 Me. 123.
AFTER
Later, succeedilg, subsequent to, inferior in point of time or of priority or preference.
After-county; 4
e., after the end of the county court. A time and place appointed by the sheriff for the receipt of the king’s money after the end of his county, or county court.
Against the law of war
1 Kent. Comm. 6.— Contra jus commune. Against common right or law; contrary to the rule of the com-
AGARD
L. Fr. An award. agard; no award made.
AGARDER. IL
Fr. To award, adjudge, or determine; to sentence, or condemn,
AGE 50
AGE. Signifies those periods in the lives of persons of both sexes which enable them to do certain acts which, before they had arrived at those periods, they were prohibited from doing. ;
AGENT
incapacity for reproduction, existing in elther sex, and whether arising from structural or other causes. solicitors in ordinary courts, are technically called “agents.” Macph. Priv. Coun. 65.
AGES
EXEMPLI GRATIA. For the purpose of example, or for instance. Often. abbreviated “ew. gr.” or “é. g.” INTERVENTION. Im international law. Intervention is such an interference between two or more states as may (a...
AGGER
Lat. In the civil law. A dam, bank or mound. Cod. 9, 38; Townsh. Pi.
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. An _ as
sault with circumstances of aggravation, or of a heinous character, or with intent to eommit another crime. In re Burns (C. C.) 113 Fed. 902; Norton v. State, 14 Tex. 393. See ASSAULT.
AGGRIEVED
injury; . damnified;
AGILD. In Saxon law
Free from penalty, not subject to the payment of gild, or weregild ; ‘that is, the customary fine or pe-
AGILLARIUS
L. Lat. In old English law. A hayward, herdward, or keeper of the herd of cattle in a common field. Cowell.
AGIO §2
AGIO. In commercial law. A term used to express the difference in point of value between metallic and paper money, or between one sort of metallic money and another. McCul. Dict.
AGISTATIO ANIMALIUM IN FOR
ESTA. The drift or numbering of cattle in the forest.