Artificial
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Having its existence in the given manner by virtue of or in consideration only of the law.
Artificial person
A subject of duties and rights which is represented by one or more natural persons (generally, not necessarily, ence not necessarily depending on any natural life; this legal continuity answers to some real continuity of public functions or of special purpose recognized as having public utility or of some lawful common interest of the natural persons concerned. Pollock, First Book of Jurispr. 112. See Corporation. A body, company, or corporation considered in law as an individual. Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. (U. S.) 518, 4 L. Ed. 629. AS (Lat).
A pound
It was composed of twelve ounces. The parts wera reckoned (as may be seen In the law, Servum de hceredibus, Inst. lib. xiii. Pandect) as follows: uncia, 1 ounce; sextans, 2 ounces; triens, 3 ounces; quadrans, 4 ounces; quincunx, 5 ounces; semis, 8 ounces; septunx, 7 ounces; bes, 8 ounces; dodrans, 9 ounces; dextans, 10 ounces; deunx, 11 ounces. The whole of a thing; solidum quid. Thus, as signified the whole of an inheritance: so that an heir ex asse was an heir of the whole inheritance. An heir ex triente, ex semisse, ex besse, ex deunce, was an heir of one-third, one-half, twothirds, or eleven-twelfths.