Advowtry
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
or ADVOUTRY.
In English law. The crime committed by a woman who, having committed adultery, continued to live with the adulterer. Cowell; Termes de la Ley. AEDES (Lat.)
In civil law. A dwelling; a house; a temple. In the country everything upon the surface of the soil passed under the term aedes. Du Cange; Calv. Lex. AEDIFICARE (Lat. from aedes, a house, and facere, to build).
In civil and old English law. To make or build a house; to erect a building. Dig. 45. 1. 75. 7. Sometimes applied to other objects, as a ship. Dig. 49. 14. 46. 2. AEDIFICARE IN TUO PROPRIO SOLO non licet quod alter! noceat. It is not lawful to build upon one's own land what may be injurious to another. Coke, 3d Inst. 201; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 331.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
avowtry. Adultery, so called in old statutes. Advowterer: an adulterer. Advowtress: an adulteress.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
advowterer. Adultery, adulterer..aidificare in tuo proprio solo non licet quod alter! noceat. It is not lawful to build upon your own land what may injure another. i Eedificatum solo solo cedit. What is built upon the land goes with it. i El, aieul, ayle,_/^. A grandfather, v. Aiel. 2iquitas, I. Equity,.ffiquitas sequitur legem: equity follows the law..aiquitas uzoribus, liberis, oreditoribus mazime favet: equity favors wives and children, creditors most of all. i Equivocum, /. Of various or doubtful signification..Squus, I. Equal; fair; just, aiquior est dispositio legis quam hominis: the disposition of the law is fairer than man's..ffirerer, alrer,^. To plough. iSEjS alienum, /. In civil law, a debt. 2istimatio capitis, I. The value of the head. A fine imposed for murder, varying in amount according to the rank of the person killed. i Estimatio prseteriti delicti ez postremo facto nunquam crescit: the rating of a past offence is never aggravated by a later act..ZBtate probanda, v. De. Affaire.yr. To do, make; to be made or taken.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Avowtry. Adultery, so called in old statutes. Advowterer; an adulterer; advowtress, an adulteress. Cowell, voc. Adultery. Termes de la ley, voc. Avowterer. AEDIFICARE. Lat. [from aedes, a house, and facere, to build.] To make, or build a house; to erect a building. Aedificare in tuo proprio solo non licet quod alteri noceat. It is not lawful to build on your own land what may injure another. 3 Inst. 201. A person has no right to erect a building on his own land which interferes with the due enjoyment of adjoining premises, and occasions damage thereto, either by overhanging them, or by the flow of water from the roof and eaves upon them; unless a legal right so to build has been conceded by grant, or may be presumed by user, or by the operation of a statute. Broom's Max. 172. Aedificatum solo solo cedit. What is built upon land belongs to, or goes with the land. Broom's Max. 172. Co. Litt. 4 a. See Cedere, Solum, Cujus est solum, &c. AEDITUS. Editus. Born. Bract. fol. 70 a, 278 a. Passed, as a statute; put forth, or promulgated. See Editus.