Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Those doing and those consenting are liable to the same punishment.

The age below which the law presumes a girl incapable of consenting to the sexual act. See 115 Cal. 132, 46 Pac. 915.

A request of an infant party to a real action for a stay of proceedings until his majority.

A field.

A dam; a dike; a bank.

That which enhances the gravity of a criminal or tortious act; allegations in a declaration which tend to enhance damages. See 19 Vt. 107.

A meeting of the minds of parties contracting. See 95 N. Y. 428, 47 Am. Rep. 64.

Subjected to loss or injury. See 25 L. R. A. (N. S.) 155, note; also 62 L. R. A. 700.

A cowherd.

Agistment.

The bailee of cattle pastured on his land.

The pasturing of the cattle of another on one’s land.

Romans who traced their name and lineage through the male line to a common deceased ancestor.

Agnation.

Relationship through males.

A popular appellation often appended to one’s true name. Agrarian. Pertaining to land.

Laws regulating the disposition of public lands.

By gratuity.

Agreement.

To agree.

The mutual assent of two or more parties to something done or to be done. See 20 Tex. App. 375.

An agreement covering the insured pending the delivery of the formal policy. See 19 N. Y. 305.

Help; assistance; encouragement; counsel.

Municipal bonds issued in aid of a private enterprise in the interest of the public. See 104 HI. 285.

The curing by legal presumption of defects in pleading to which after verdict it is too late to object. See 16 Pick. (Mass.) 541.

Assisting in the perpetration of a crime by being present to give aid or assistance. See 65 Mo. 29.

A request for assistance of another to help a party to a real action to plead because of the feebleness of his own estate. See 3 Bl. Comm. 300.

Service or money from a tenant in chivalry to make the lord’s eldest son a knight.

Service or money from a tenant in chivalry to marry the lord’s daughter.

Services or payments to the lord by a tenant in chivalry on certain occasions and as aid pur faire Teigne, etc.

A grandfather; a writ under which a grandchild could oust a stranger who dispossessed him on the day of the death of his grandfather, who was seised. See 3 Bl. Comm. 186.

A grandmother.

A grandfather.

To plough.

An easement.

Abbreviation for Alius or Alii.

Claims arising from damage done to United States shipping by English privateers in the Civil War.

Collateral.

Rent payable in silver.

A Spanish officer having judicial powers similar to those of a justice of the peace. See 67 U. S. 17, 17 L. Ed. 360.

An associate of the chief civil magistrate of an English city or town. A member of the governing board of a city. See 4 Hill (N. Y.), 384.

A gambler.

Uncertain; involving risk or hazard as a contract of insurance. See 8 La. Ann. 488.

Ale taster; an officer whose duty it was to see to the quality of the ale used within the leet.

A container for hot water used in the ordeal by water.

A code formed under Alfred the Great, about 887 A. D.

Other wrongs; a formal allegation ending a declaration in trespass under which many acts may be proved. See 3 Mass. 222.

Otherwise; also known as; at another time.

Otherwise called or known as.

A new summons issued to serve the same purpose as one previously issued. See 9 Idaho, 718, 76 Pac. 323.

A writ issued usually to replace one which has been lost or has become functus officio. See 17 Conn. 145.

At a place other than one designated.

An unnaturalized person of foreign birth; to alienate or transfer title.

An alien whose nation is at peace with ours.

The business of another should be carried out with particular care.

To alienate.

To transfer title.

Alienation.

While alienation may be restrained, yet it may be made with the consent of all those in whose favor it was restrained, and indeed anyone may waive a right introduced for his benefi

The transfer of title. See 47 Am. St. Rep. 741.

The transferee in a conveyance.

An alien whose nation is at war with ours.

Avaricious of the possessions of others, wasteful of his own.

An alien.

Of another kind.

Under another’s control as distinguished from sui juris.

One who alienates or transfers.

On the land of another.

The law prefers alienation of property to accumulation thereof.

Necessaries.

A sum ordered by the court to be paid to a wife by the husband for her support during the time she lives separate from him, or paid by him after divorce for her maintenance. See 34

Alimony to be paid during the pendency of a divorce suit. See 18 App. Div. 316, 46 N. Y. Supp. 9.

No one is bound to do the impossible.

From another point of view.

In any way.

Something; somewhat.

Something is conceded which would not otherwise be conceded, lest an injury should go urn punished.

Somewhat of possession, but nothing of right.

Anyone.

One ought not to be a judge in his own cause, because one cannot be both a judge and a party to the action.

One cannot sit as a judge in his own case.

Otherwise.

To conceal is one thing, to be silent another.

Distinction is one thing, separation another.

To possess is one thing, to be in possession another.

It is one thing to be silent, another to conceal. See 32 L. Ed. (U. S.) 41.

To sell is one thing, to consent to one’s selling is another.

From another place.

Another; different.

Contradictory statements will not be listened to. See 28 L. R. A. 129.

One alleging his own baseness is not to be heard. See 3 British Ruling Cases, 629.

To allege; to assert.

Matters which are not relevant if proved ought not to be alleged.

Matters alleged and matters proved; pleadings and proof.

An allegation contrary to a deed is not admissible.

An assertion; a pleading.

A wife’s statement concerning her husband’s property as a basis for an award of alimony. See 11 Ala. 763.

To defend one’s own cause.

Designating on appeal an error occurring in a minor part of the record of the trial court. See 1 Munf. (Va.) 119.

To pay a fine.