the first letter of the English and most other alphabets, is frequently used as an abbreviation, (q. v.) and also in the marks of schedules or papers,...
from bed and board. A divorce a mensa et thoro, is rather a separation of the parties by act of law, than a dissolution of the marriage. It may be gra...
French, to take, to seize, in contracts, as profits a prendre. Ham. N. P. 184, or a right to take something out of the soil. 5 Ad. & Ell. 764, 1 N. & ...
A Latin phrases which signifies from which, example, in the computation of time, the day a quo is not to be counted, but the day ad quem is always inc...
French, to render, to yield, contracts. Profits a rendre, under this term are comprehended rents and services. Ham N. P. 192....
from the bond of marriage. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before m...
from the beginning. 2. When a man enters upon lands or into the house of another by authority of law, and afterwards abuses that authority, he become...
An heir, ab intestat, is one on whom the law casts the inheritance or estate of a person who dies intestate....
civil law. A Latin phrase, which signifies by a man in anger. It is applied to bequests or gifts, which a man makes adverse to the interest of his hei...
contracts.Inthe French law, the act by which a debtor surrenders his property for the benefit of his creditors. Merl. Rep. mot Abandonment....
contracts. In insurances the act by which the insured relinquishes to the assurer all the property to the thing insured.2.- No particular form is requ...
In maritime contracts in the civil law, principals are generally held indefinitely responsible for the obligations which their agents have contracted ...
lights. The relinquishment of a right, the giving up of something to which we are entitled. 2. - Legal rights, when once vested, must be divested acco...
for torts, a term used in the civil law. By the Roman law, when the master was sued for the tort of his slave, or the owner for a trespass committed b...
malicious. The act of a hushand or wife, who leaves his or her consort wilfully, and with an intention of causing perpetual separation. 2. - Such aban...
chancery practice, is a suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. It differs from an aba...
contracts, is a reduction made by the creditor, for the prompt payment of a debt due by the payor or debtor. Wesk. on Ins. 7....
merc. law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes made at the custom-house from the duties chargeable upon goods when they are damaged See...
pleading, is the overthrow of an action in consequence of some error committed in bringing or conducting it when the plaintiff is not forever barred f...
The entry of a stranger after the death of the ancestor, and before the heir or devisee takes possession, by which the rightful possession of the heir...
is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying the testator"s debts. 2. When the estate is short of paying the debts and legacies, and there a...
is the prostration or removal of a nuisance. 3 Bl. 2. - 1. Who may abate a nuisance, 2, the manner of abating it. 1. Who may abate a nuisance. 1. Any ...
is, 1st, he who abates or prostrates a nuisance, 2, he who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudiae of an heir or de...
obsolete. Any thing diminished, as, moneta abatuda, which is money clipped or diminished in value. Cowell, h. t. ...
civil law, is the great grandfather, or fourth male ascendant. Abavia, is the great grandmother, or fourth female ascendant....
abbatia, is a society of religious persons, having an abbot or abbess to preside over them. Formerly some of the most considerable abbots and priors i...
practice. - The omission of some words or letters in writing, as when fieri facias is written fi. fa. 2. In writing contracts it is the better practic...
and abbreviated references. The following list, though neces-sarily incomplete, may be useful to some readers. A, a, the first letter of the alphabet,...
eccl. law. Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the Pope"s briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, to be converted into Papal Bu...
obsolete. The forestalling of a market or fair....
government. 1. A simple renunciation of an office, generally understood of a supreme office. James II. of England, Charles V. of Germany, and Christia...
crim. law. The carrying away of any person by force or fraud. This is a misdemeanor punishable by indictment. 1 East, P.C. 458, 1 Russell, 569. The ci...
Behaviour, as, a recognizance to be of good abearance, signifies to be of good behaviour. 4 Bl. Com.,251, 256....
obsolete. An apparent, plain, or downright murder. It was used to distinguish a wilful murder, from a chance-medley, or manslaughter. Spelman, Cowell,...
crim. law. One who encourages or incites, persuades or sets another on to commit a crime . Such a person is either a principal or, an accessory to the...
estates, from the French aboyer, which in figurative sense means to expect, to look for, to desire. When there is no person in esse in whom the freeho...
English law. A defendant who pleads a frivolous plea, or a plea merely for the purpose of delaying the suit, or who for the same purpose, shall file a...
civ. law, A particular kind of larceny, which is committed not by taking and carrying away the property from one place to another, but by driving a li...
civil law. Stealers of cattle, who were punished with more severity than other thieves. Dig. 47, 14, 4 Bl. Com. 239....
- A renunciation of allegiance to a country by oath.2. - 1. The act of Congress of the 14th of April, 1802, 2 Story"s Laws, U.S. 850, requires that wh...
diplomacy. Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent witha less extensive commission to a court where there are no nuncios. This title is equ...
civil law. The grandson of a grandson or grand-daughter, or fourth descendant. Abneptis, is the grand-daughter of a grandson or grand-daughter. These ...
An act by which a thing is extinguished, abrogated or annihilated. Merl. Repert, h. t., as, the abolition of slavery is the destruction of slavery. 2 ...
med jur. and criminal law. The expulsion of the foetus before the seventh mouth of utero-gestation, or before it is viable. q. v. 2. The causes of thi...
The fruit of an abortion, the child born before its time, incapable of life. See Abortion, Birth, Breath, Dead bord, Gestation, Life. ABOVE. Literally...
An epitome or compendium of another and larger work, wherein the principal ideas of the larger work are summarily contained. When fairly made, it may ...
in the civil law, legislation. The destruction or annulling of a former law, by an act of the legislative power, or by usage. A- law may be abrogated ...
To go in a clandestine manner out of the jurisdiction of the courts, or to lie concealed in order to avoid their process....
One who is away from his domicil, or usual place of residence.2. After an absence of seven years without being heard from, the presumption of death ar...
Without any condition or encumbrance, as an "absolute bond," simplex obligatio, in distinction from a conditional bond, an absolute estate, one that i...
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