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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
^ 1. "A distinct portion or part, a joint or a part of a member, one of various things.'' A word of separation to individualize and distinguish some particular thing from the general thing or whole of which it forms a part: as, an article in a newspaper, an article of merchandise. 3 The radical word in the Greek means to join or to fit to as a part. It is only recently that it has been applied to goods or physical property, and then only in the sense of something that is separate and individual in itself, as salt is a necessary article, or a hammer is a useful article.' When a carrier stipulates that he will not be liable in the carriage of baggage for an amount exceeding fifty dollars "upon any article," the reference is to any article coming under the denomination of baggage. The limitation would apply to the articles in a trunk, but not to the trunk as one article. " The article forwarded,' in a similar special contract, may cover each of several articles so strapped together as to form one package. ' 2. In the sense of a distinct portion, one of separate yet co-related parts, a clause in a contract, compact, or other formal document, is used in the expressions: An article or articles— of agreement, of amendment, of ^sociation, of confederation, of impeachment, of partnership, of peace, of war, of separation, of shipping, qq. v. In popular parlance "to article "< means to make and become bound by an article of agreement, q. v. 1 The John H. Pearson, 121 U. S. 469, 473 (1887), Waite, C. J. Appeal from the Cir. Ct. for Mass. 2F. article: L. articulus, a small Joint, a joint: Gk. arein', to fit to as part.
3 Wetzellr. Dinsmore, 4 Daly, 193 (1871), Daly, C. J. Articled clerk.
In England a person bound by indenture to a solicitor, that he may acquire the knowledge pertaining to the business of a solicitor.
Articulately.
By separate or distinct propositions: as, to articulately propound in a libel in admiralty.
See Libel, 2. 3.
Precise point of time; the exact moment: as, to be in the article of death — in articulo mortis.