article

any material, part, assembly, machinery, equipment, or other personal property.

Defined by the Supreme Court in Lichter v. United States, 334 U.S. 742 (1948).

A distinct part of an instrument, consisting of two or more particulars. Hence systems of rules and instruments composed of various particulars, or arranged in several divisions, are called "articles." The term was anciently applied to statutes drawn in this form. In French Law. A point. In English Ecclesiastical Law. A charge or libel. The introductory part of such a pleading is: "We article and object," etc. In Scotch Practice. A subject or matter, "Article of dittay." 1 Brown, 62,

A separate and distinct part of an instrument or writing comprising two or more particulars; one of several things presented as connected or forming a whole. Carter v. Railroad Co., 126 N. C. 437, 36 S. E. 14; Wetzell v. Dinsmore, 4 Daly (N. Y.) 195 In English ecclesiastical law. A complaint exhibited in the ecclesiastical court by way of libel. The different parts of a libel, responsive allegation, or counter allegation in the ecclesiastical courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 109.

In Scotch practice. A subject or mat; ter; competent matter. "Article of dlttay." 1 Broun, 62. A "point of dittay." 1 Swinti 128, 129.

A distinct part of an instrument, consisting of two or more particulars. A species of pleading in the English ecclesiastical courts, which is put in the form of objection or charge, as for annulling a marriage, for depriving a clergyman of his benefice, etc. A point In Scots law. A subject or matter; competent matter.

A separate and distinct part of an instrument or writing comprising two or more particulars; one of several things presented as connected or forming a whole.

In English ecclesiastical law. A complaint exhibited in the ecclesiastical court by way of libel. The different parts of a libel, responsive allegation, or counter allegation in the ecclesiastical courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 109.

In Scotch practice. A subject or matter; competent matter. "Article of dittay." 1 Broun, 62. A "point of dittay." 1 Swint. 128, 129.

^ 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.

A species of pleading in the English The division or paragraph of a document. religion, or the thirty-nine articles: a of the Church of England, formed by Cranmer, Convocation of 1562. Articles of the a complaint made before a court or justice from whom the complainant fears to bear a coat of court to answer. attend court. The accounts, or interest licensing an owner of low hedge and small into legal custody. after verdict for writ which lay for one who was likely to amends. of attachment or Dei. formerly exacted from punisbment of those one who is accessary ecclesiastical courts. Articles of faith, statement of the faith and revised by the peace: in English law, of the peace against injury to or stereiies of the peace. Popularly termed against one.

[Lat. afticulus.] A distinct part of a writing or instrument, consisting of two or more particulars. Hence systems of rules and instruments, composed of various particulars, or arranged in separate divisions, are called articles; and the term was also anciently applied to statutes drawn up in this form. See Articles. A point. See Articulus. The French article and point are synonymous. Hn chescun article et chescun point. Artie, sup. Chart, c. 1. A species of pleading in the English ecclesiastical courts, which is put in m the form of objection or charge, as for annulling a marriage, for depriving a clergyman of his benefice, <fec. 4 Chitty's Gm. Pr. 166, 167. 200. 209. The word article is used in the formal parts of this pleading, as a verb. " We article and object to you the said —, that," <fec. Id. 200, et seq. The expression " articulately propound" constantly occurs in pleadings in the ecclesiastical courts. Id. 168, etseq. m