Ballentine's Law Dictionary

To the center or thread of the way.

A writ ordering a further inquest.

Auxiliary.

Voluntarily and intentionally although mistakenly administered. See 31 L. R. A. 686.

To administer; to take charge of.

Management; care and control.

Administration for temporary preservation of an estate.

An action by a creditor to subject a decedent’s estate to the payment of his claim.

One who by court appointment administers an estate of a decedent.

An administrator with the will annexed.

An administrator who succeeds to one who has not completed his administration. See 65 Ala. 442.

One who administers an estate of a testator who named no executor or whose named executor cannot or will not act. See 109 Fed. 847, 54 L. R. A. 680, 4 C. C. A. 692.

Courts having jurisdiction in maritime cases.

A method of transferring a copyhold estate. See 2 Bl. Comm. 370.

A writ associating certain persons to justices of assize.

The mingling of goods by accession or confusion.

A warning which was given to a prisoner standing mute.

Accustomed to bite.

The son of a great-great-grandson.

The daughter of a great-great-granddaughter.

To annul.

To the nuisance.

Judges are expected to show justice to everyone who pleads before them.

A proceeding whereby one assumes the legal relation of parent toward a minor.

At the church door.

A surety.

Reference should be made to the matter next preceding unless the meaning is thereby destroyed.

Judges do not pass upon questions of fact. Sec 26 L. R. A. 289.

Judges do not answer questions of fact; jurors do not answer questions of law. See XX Eng. Ruling Cases, 630.

Judges answer questions of law; jurors answer questions of fact. See XX Eng. Ruling Cases, 630.

To which.

To which the court agreed.

A writ under which a license from the king was obtained. See 2 Bl. Comm. 271.

To which there was no answer.

To cite to appear.

To correct; to make amends.

For the proper understanding of a thing, it is well first to inquire into the names, because a knowledge of things depends upon their names.

Against the thing.

For repair and keeping in order.

To answer.

A Roman law adoption of one who has net reached the age of puberty.

Ad sectam.

To satisfy.

Running with the land.

Slaves.

At the suit of. Abbreviated “ads.”

Special judges appointed to sit with or for the regular judges.

For a term of years.

A writ which the lessor could use to secure possession when refused by the lessee after the expiration of his lease.

Suspicion rests heavily on the unfortunate side.

Then and there.

The traducer of a married woman.

A female adulterer.

One who commits adultery.

A child born of adulterous intercourse.

A fine imposed for adultery.

Sexual intercourse of a married man with a woman not his wife, whether married or single. See 18 L. R. A. (N. S.) 580; also 26 Am. Rep. 21.

To the extreme limit of the terms.

Perfectly.

For use and benefit.

According to value.

Whatever is given by a parent to a child as a portion of the child’s inheritance. See 40 Am. St. Rep. 532.

Payments made before they are due.

An unnaturalized alien.

The period from the Sunday nearest November 30th until Christmas.

Adventitious; unusual.

A writ for the examination of a woman to determine the question of her pregnancy.

The shipment of goods in charge of an agent to he sold by him for the shipper at the best price obtainable; marine insurance risk. See 14 Fed. 233.

The use of an easement under claim of right.

Every party who has an interest in conflict with the reversal of a judgment or whose rights might be adversely or injuriously affected by a reversal, irrespective of whether such p

Open and notorious possession and occupation of real property under an evident claim or color of right. See 35 L. R. A. (N. S.) 755, note.

An opinion of a higher court upon a point before a lower one.

For or during good behavior.

A barrister; one who may plead causes in a court.

In Roman law, patrons, pleaders.

An advowson.

A Scotch method of appeal.

A patron is one who has the right of presentation to a church and who can present to the church in his own name and not that of another.

A fiscal advocate.

At the will of the master.

Adultery.

The holder of an advowson.

A right of presentation to a church or benefice. See 2 Bl. Comm. 21.

An advowson annexed to the possession of a manor.

An advowson wherein the patron is the bishop.

An advowson whereby the patron may give a church or a chapel without presentation, institution or induction.

An advowson annexed to the person of the owner and not to his manor or lands.

An advowson whereby the patron has a right of presentation to the bishop or ordinary.

Same as advoutry.

A dwelling-house.

He burned the dwelling of another.

To build a house.

One may not build on his own land what may injure another.

A building goes with the land on which it stands.

Buildings pass with the land.

A Roman officer who superintended the care of public buildings, streets, weights and measures, funerals, games and the prices of provisions.

A Roman law which provided the purchaser a remedy for the unsoundness of a slave or animal sold with knowledge of the defect.

A grandfather.

The law’s disposition of a matter is more just than thafr'of a man.

Equity.