Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Before sunset.

Before all other things.

A Roman pledge under which the lender took the use of the property in lieu of interest.

The premature doing of an act.

A copy.

A Roman officer who supervised the control of public moneys.

A real or apparent contradiction in a law.

Certain statutory duties on wool and leather.

To preserve the old law, a Roman law term.

English statutes from 1189 to 1327.

Ancient demesne.

One seeking to escape punishment for a crime by charging his accuser therewith.

A confidential vassal.

A great-great-great-aunt.

A part of a house occupied by one person while the rest is occupied by another or others. See 10 Pick. (Mass.) 293.

A contract.

Unsealed writs.

An overt act.

Open.

A subtlety of the law.

A mental affliction whereby one loses comprehension of the sense of words and of familiar objects.

The extremes of the law are not the law. See 6 L. R. A. (N. S.) 494.

Extremes of the law.

Title to the booty of pirates and robbers does not change. See 1 Kent’s Comm. 108, 184.

We obtain possession of a thing with both the mind and the body, not with the mind alone nor with the body alone.

A receipt for payment.

Bills of lading.

A messenger; an ambassador.

A writ under which an apostate was seized by the sheriff and brought before the abbott.

From a subsequent viewpoint.

Letters granted to an appellant in admiralty stating that the record will be transmitted.

See Apostles .

One who makes a business of compounding and selling drugs. See 72 Ky. 569.

A process server of the ecclesiastical courts.

One who will inherit if he survive the ancestor.

The time when a negotiable paper on its face appears to be due.

To appear.

An appearance.

See Apparator .

Furniture; implements.

The transfer of a cause to a higher court for review or for a new trial, used also to denote “Appeal of felony.”

An old English proceeding in the nature of a private prosecution wherein a relative of the injured or deceased person was usually the plaintiff or appellant.

See Apparent Heir .

Under statute requiring firm name to appear conspicuously on place of business, word means obvious and manifest. See Ann. Cas. 1913B, 913.

A notification that a party to an action or his attorney for him is before the court. See 83 Ky. 529.

The day on which or before which one must appear. See 26 S. W. (Tex.) 282.

One who files an appeal; the complaining party in an appeal of felony.

Pertaining to appeals.

Jurisdiction to hear and determine an appeal from a lower court. See 65 Mo. App. 543.

An appeal.

One against whom a cause is appealed; the defendant in an appeal of felony.

I appeal; the Roman law form of making an appeal.

One who prosecutes an appeal; one who accuses his confederates in crime.

An appealing party.

Affixed or belonging to something more important.

Appurtenances.

Payment in money by weight.

An old form of appurtenances.

Roadbed, tracks, cars, engines, and all other machinery and equipment furnished by the carrier and used in connection with the conduct and management of its business, but not inclu

To fasten, to moor a ship.

The application is the life of a rule.

A petition or request.

The credit by the creditor of payments made on account of a particular indebtedness or part thereof. See 94 N. Y. 467.

One who has been appointed to an office or trust.

The selection of a person to some office or trust.

The person appointed by a donor under the Statute of Uses to execute a power.

Partition into shares.

The revenue derived from a right such as a corody or a pension.

The charging them with money received on account of the exchequer.

An officer who supervised the accounts rendered to the exchequer by the sheriffs.

To value.

An officer appointed by a court to appraise property. See 19 R. I. 499; 34 Atl. 1112.

To appraise.

Arrest.

One bound by contract to the service of another and who receives instruction in a trade therefor. See 3 N. J. L. 422.

Barristers.

Barristers.

A law student.

The right to visiting a ship to ascertain her nationality. See, also, 32 L. R. A. 588.

To approve.

To accept one part and reject another.

Under constitutional provision, water held not appropriated until applied to beneficial use. See 4 L. R. A. 767.

The annexation of a benefice to the use of a church corporation.

See Application of payments .

By a committee means exercise of discretion by committee as a whole and cannot be affected by delegation. See Ann. Cas. 1912B, 495.

To cultivate; to reclaim waste land.

Confessing a capital offense after indictment and before pleading and accusing another of it. See 26 111. 344.

One indicted for a capital offense who confessed before plea and accused another person of it. See 26 111. 173.

Notes indorsed by one other than the maker by way of added security. See 20 Wend. (N. Y.) 431.

See Approbare .

A driving toward.

Things which are appurtenant. See 64 Am. St. Rep. 107.

Belonging to; incident to; accessory to.

AfteT.

Afternoon.

After that.

To take.

From a prospective viewpoint.

Fit; suitable; proper.

A girl of marriageable age.