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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

That which appears; that which is manifest; what is proved. It is required that all things upon which a court must pass should be made to appear, if matter in pais, under oath; if matter of record, by the record. It is a rule that those things which do not appear are to be con- Max. 20. What does not appear does not exist: quod rum apparct, non est; La Frombois v. Jackson, 8 Cow. (N. Y.) 600, 18 Am. Dec. 463; 1 Term 404; 12 M. & W. 316. In case of homicide when the term "apparent danger" is used it means such overt actual demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or do some great personal injury as would make the killing apparently necessary for self-preservation; Evans v. State, 44 Miss. 762.