Ballentine's Law Dictionary

With; at the house of; at; among.

Among the recorded acts.

Water.

Water used only in summer.

The water goes with the land. See 80 L. R. A. 820.

Running water.

Water runs and should run as it is wont to run by natural right. See 30 L. R. A. 820.

The right to run water through the land of another.

Fresh water.

The right to draw water from the land of another.

The easement of dripping water.

Spring water.

Fresh water.

Toll charged for carrying water.

A waterway.

Flowing water.

Water available at all times.

Salt water.

Rights of fishing and navigation and in the soil under the sea and rivers.

From which.

They ploughed.

Arable land.

To plough.

See Aralia .

Land ploughable with one plough.

An arbitrator; formerly one who was governed by law and equity in his decisions rather than by his own judgment.

A just arbitration renders to each what is his.

That which is decided by the judge on his own judgment and not under a statute.

The submission of a cause to an arbitrator. See 42 Am. St. Rep. 200.

A plea raising the defense that the matter has been settled by an arbitration.

Payment in one country by a bill of exchange drawn upon another.

One chosen to decide a controversy out of court by mutual consent. See 57 Am. St. Rep. 312.

An arbitration award.

An award is a judgment.

An award is the judgment of a good man according to equity and good-, ness.

A tree.

A family-tree.

It is a tree while growing, wood when not growing. See 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 239.

A boundary line tree.

State secrets.

A treasurer.

A compilation of Saxon law published about 1600.

The head of the ecclesiastical power in his province.

An ecclesiastical officer subordinate to a bishop.

An English ecclesiastical court with jurisdiction in probate, administration and ecclesiastical matters within the archdeaconry. See 3 Bl. Comm. 64.

A feudal service of maintaining a bow for the defense of the castle.

An ecclesiastical court of appeal and of original jurisdiction.

An original document.

An archbishop.

In safe custody.

An incendiary.

An open space within a house or an adjoining inclosure.

Sandy beaches.

To render.

In Roman law, a sandpit.

To rent.

To plough and sow.

An argument based upon original writs in the record will prevail.

In arrears.

In arrears.

Abbreviation for arguendo.

Money lenders.

A money lender; a banker.

A porter who carried money in the exchequer.

Silver.

Uncoined silver; silver coin.

An earnest given to bind a bargain.

In argument; by way of argument.

Inferential.

Argument.

An argument based upon authority is very strong in law.

An argument drawn from an impossibility is of very great force in law.

An argument drawn from the inconvenience of a thing is proper in law, because the law will not permit anything inconvenient.

An argument drawn from the inconvenience of a thing is very forcible in law.

An argument from common occurrences is frequent in law.

An argument addressed to the purse.

A personal argument.

An argument based upon the ignorance of the audience.

An argument from a division of the matter is very strong in law.

An argument addressed to the sense of decency.

An argument from the greater to the less is of no force; conversely it is good.

Argument from analogy has force in law.

A feudal penalty imposed for disobedience of the king’s order to take up arms.

A government ruled by a class.

Arms; weapons.

To knight.

The laws permit the use of arms against those armed.

Free arms; the sword and lance given to a servant upon his manumission.

Cutting weapons.

Reversed arms; a punishment for felony.

Armed force.

See Armiger .

A squire; one entitled to bear arms.

An agreed interruption of hostilities between belligerent nations.

A bay or river where the tide of the sea ebbs and flows.

Under the term “arms” are included not only shields and swords but also clubs and stones.

Weapons.

A grocer.

Same as Arpent.

A land measure.