A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In practice. Pertaming to appeals; having cognizance of appeals. See Appellate court, Appellate jurisdiction. Appsllatb court, a court of appeal; a court having cognizance of appea

Lat. In the civil law. An appeal from an inferior to a superior court or tribunal. Dig, 49. 1. deappellationibus,

Lat. [iromappeU /are, (q. v.); L. Fr. appelle.'] In old practice. An appellee; one who is appealed, or against whom an appeal is made; the party accused by an appeal. Olanv. lib. 7

Fr. In old practice. The party accused by the process of appeal. Britt, c. 23. See Appeal.

[L. Fr. appelle, q. v.] In practice. The party against whom an appeal is made. More commonly termed the respoitient; the party answering to, or opposing an appeal. See Respondent.

Appeller. L. Fr. In old practice. To call; to call or summon before a judge; to appeal or accuse. L. Fr. Dict. John que cy est appele Peres qui illonques est, de ceo, que, etc.; Jo

Lat. In the civil law. I appeal. The form of making an appeal apud acta. Dig. 49. 1. 2.

Fr. In old practice. The party who brought an appeal; the plaintiff in an appeal. Britt. c. 22.

Lat. [from L. Fr. appel, q. v.] In old practice. An appeal. Magna Charta, c. 34. Spelman. Fiat appellum p& verba appellum facientia; the appeal must be made by words of appeal. Bra

Fr. and Eng. [from Fr. appender, to hang to, to belong or be annexed to; Lat. appendens, adjunctum, accessorium.] In the law of estates. Annexed or appended to, as a right of commo

Lat. [from appendere, to hang to.] In old conveyancing. The appendages or appurtenances to an estate, &c. Kennett's Par. Ant. 110. Cowell.

Lat. [iromi^ pendere, to belong to.] In French law. An appenage or appendage; the portion of a younger son, {quasi appendagium juf Uoris filii.) Spelman. See Apanage. •

• L. Lat. [from appendere, to weigh out.] In old law. Payment of money at the scale, or by weight. Uowell.

Apent. L. Fr. [from appender, to belong to.] It belongs. Appent al visconte receyver plegges; it belongs to the sheriff to take pledges. Britt. c. 46. Que appent a son office; whic

[Lat. pertinens.] Belonging to; appurtenant. Bee Appurtenant. Usually occupied with, or lying to; as land with, or to a messuage. Plowd. lYO, 171.

An old form of appurtenances, (q. v.)

Lat. A soldering together. Bract, fol. 9. b.

Lat. To lean upon. Spelman.

[L. Fr/appoincter; L. Lat, appuncttuxre.] In equity, and conveyancing. To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of an estate already conveyed, by virtue

In equity, and conveyancing. A deed or instrument executed in pursuance of a power contained in some preceding deed, (called a power of appointment;) and which operates as a convey

The person who appoints, or executes a power of appointment; as appointee is the person to whom, or in "whose favor an appointment is made. 1 StepK Com. 606, 607. 4 Kent's Com. 816

Lat. [from a^?, to, and ponere, to put.] In old practice. To put, or set to. Justitiarii apponant aigilla sua; the justices shall affix their seals. Stat. Westm. 2, c. 31. To put i

Fr. A tax, tribute, imposition or payment. Kelham.

Lat. An apportionment. Blount.

Apporconare. L. Lat. To apportion. Towns. PL 21, Apporiio Tiatce; apportioned, assessed. Reg. Grig, 268.

[L. Lat. apporthmamentum.] In the law of contracts. A dividing, or making into parts. Co. Litt. 147 b. A distribution according to a certain proportion.* The distribution of a clai

Lat. [from Fr. apport, or Lat. apportare, to carry or bring.] In old records. The revenue, gain or profit which a thing brings to its owner; any profit or emolument apported, or br

[from Fr. apposer, q. v.] In old practice. The charging of sheriffs with money received upon their account in the exchequer. Stat. 22 dt 28 Car. II. Cowell.

In old practice. An officer in the English exchequer, whose business it was to examine the sheriff's estreats with thft record, and to ask the sheriff what he could say to every pa

Fr. To question; toi adjust or settle. Kelham.

In French law. An addition or annotation made in the margin of any writing. Merlin, Bouvier.

Appreiiare, L. Lat. To appraise, or estimate. Eeg, Orig, 162. Bra4iL fol. 73, 74.

Appreeio. L. Lat. An appraisement. BracL fol. 72, 73. Beg. Orig. 160.

[Lat. apprekensio, from apprehendere, to take hold of.] In the civil law. A physical or corporal act, {corpus,) on the part of one who intends to acquire possession of a thing, by

ApprentitiuB. L. Lat. [from Fr. apprendre, to learn.] An apprentice. Kennett's Par. AnU 449. Cowell. See Apprenti(M.

Lat. [L. Fr. apprentise en la ley!\ In old English practice. An apprentice or student at law; a learner in the law; sometimes called apprenticius legis, (an apprentice or learner o

Fr. Apprenticeship or novitiate, (tirocinium.) Spelman. Cowell. The state of an apprentice, or the term for which he was bound.* Appren- Usage is used by old Bhglish writers. Richa

Fr. To prepare. Apprest; prepared, ready. L. Fr. Diet.

Apprise, (pi. Apprises.) L. Fr. [from apprendre, to learn.] Learned or skilled. Apprises en la ley; learned in the law. Litt. epilogue. Les lays gents que ne sont apprises en la le

Lat. To approve. Toions. PI. 62. See Approve.

In Scotch law. To approve and reject. Equity suffers no person to approbate and reprobate the same deed. 1 Kames' Equity, 317.

Lat. [from approbare, q. v.] An approver. Towns. PL 62. See Approver, Probator.

Lat. [from ad, to, and proprius, one's own.] To take to one's own separate use; to appropriate; to approve. Appropriare et includere [commufitof Ti]; to approve, or separate and en

In English ecclesiastical law. The perpetual annexing of a benefice to some spiritual corporation either sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living. 1 Bl. Com. 384. 3 Steph.

[L. Lat. appropriare, ap* pruare; L. Fr. fffprover, apprower, appruer^ In old English law. To take to one's own separate use, (ad proprium); as by enclosing land that was before co

[L. Lat. approbare.] In old criminal law. To accuse or prove; to accuse an accomplice by giving evidence against him. See Approvement.

Lat, An approvement, or improvement. Cowell, voc. Approvement.

[L. Lat. approveamentum, appruam^ntum,\ Enclosure; the enclosing part of a common or waste ground, leaving sufficient common* with egress and regress for the commoners. 2 BL Com. 3

In English criminal law. A species of confession, which was when a person indicted of treason or felony, and arraigned for the same, confessed the fact before plea pleaded, and app

[L. Lat. approbator, probator.'] In English criminal law. A person, who being indicted of treason or felony, upon his arraignment, befoii^ plea pleaded, and with a view of obtainin

In old English law. The bailiff of a lord in his franchise. Stat. 9 Hen. VI., c. 10. Cowell. The king's approvers were those that had the letting of the king's demesnes in small ma

Lat. [from appruare, q. v.] An approvement, or improvement. Cowell. Salvis eidem R. appruamentis suis; saving to the said R. his approvements. Reg. Jud. 8.

Lat. [L. Fr. appruer.] To approve, or improve. Stat. Westm. 2, c. 46. Appruari; to be approved. Cowell, voc. Approve.

[anciently written apperiinances; from L. Fr. apurtenaunces, (q. V.) L. Lat. appertinentia, pertinenticB.\ lliings belonging, appertaining or appurtenant to another thing as princi

[L. Lat. pcrtinens.] Belonging to; accessory or incident to. This word answers to the accessorium of the civil law. 2 Steph. Com. 30, note. Land is not properly appurtenant to a ho

Fr. To take. Aright to take something out of the soil of another is a profit a prendre, or a right coupled with a profit. 1 Cra Ws Real Prop. 125, § 115. Distinguished from an ease

Lat. At. Apud turrim; at the tower. Bract, fol. 360 b. Apud London, videlicet, in parochia heaics Marias de areubu Sf tn toarda de cheap; tX London, to wit, in the parish of St. Ma

Fr. Appurtenances. Used by Britton as another name for incorporeal things, {choses nent corpora,) or rights in land. BritL c. 64.

Lat. [L. Fr. ewe, awe, aeue.] Water. Aqua dulcis, or frisca; fresh water. Reg. Orig. 97. Bract. fol. 117, 136. Aqua salsa; salt water. Id. ibid. Aqua trestornata, (ewe trestorne);

Lat. [quasi aquae agium, i. e. aquae ductus.] In old records. A duct or passage for water; a canal, ditch or trench for leading off water, especially from marshy grounds. Spelman.

Rights to the use of the sea and rivers, for the purpose of fishing and navigation, and also to the soil in the sea and rivers. Schultes' Aquatic Bights, per tot. 3 Kent's Com. 419

Lat. From which. A term used, with the correlative ad quern, (to which,) in expressing the computation of time, and also of distance in space. Thus, dies a quo, the day from which,

Lat. They ploughed. Arabant et herciabant ad curiam domini; they ploughed and harrowed at the lord's court. A phrase of frequent occurrence in Domesday Book, signifying that the va

Fr. To erase; to deface. L. Fr. Diet. Kelham.

Fr. To root up; to grub or pull up by the roots. Id.

Fr. Rooted; taken root. Arbres araeines. Britt.c.SB.

Fr. Shall have been. Kelham.

Lat. [from arare, to plough.] Arable grounds; lands devoted to tillage, (agri culturae dati, arva.) Spelman. Domesday Book. In some dictionaries, this word is incorrectly written a

Lat \L. ¥r. arer, erer.] To plough; in old Engl£h, to ear or are.

Lak [from araf«, q. v.l A ploughman; an arebte farmer. Brands.

Lat. [fromofA^ irum, a pipijghi and faster, a snuth.] A plough-wright. Toums. PL 237. ARATRUMTERR-^. L.Lat. A plough of land; a plough land; as much land as could be tilled with on

Lat. [from arare, q. v.] Land used for ploughing; arable land, (campus arabilis.) Spelman.

Araer, Arair, L. Fr. To array, prepare, settle, Kelham, 8ee Arrayer.

Lat. In the Roman law. A judge invested with a discretionary power. A person appointed by the praetor to examine and decide that class of causes or actions termed boruB Jidei, and

Arbitrement, [L.Lat. arbitramentum, arbitrium.^ The award, determination or decision of arbitrators upon the matter of dispute which has been submitted to them.* Cowell, Termes de

[Lat. arbitratio, arbitratus.] The investigation, before an unofficial person, of the matters in difference between contending parties, pursuant to an agreement, (usually in writin

Lat. and Eng. [Lat. arbiter compromissariijA^ A disinterestexl person, to whose jud^mlnt or decision matters in dispute are submitted by consent of partiesi 3 Bl. Com. 16» Beg, Ori

Lat. Awarded. Idem arbitratores arbitrati fuissent et adjudicassent; the said arbitrators awarded and adjudged. Beg. Orig. 111.

Lat. [from arbiter, q. v.] An award; the decision of an arbitrator. Reg. Orig. 111. Arbitrium est judicium. An award is a judgment. Jenk. Cent. 137. Arbitrium est judicium boni vir

Lat. A tree; a tree growing, as distinguished from lignum, dead wood, or wood cut. Arbor dum crescit, lignum cum crescere nescit; [That which is] a tree while it grows, [is] wood w

Lat. Mysteries of government; secrets of state. iBL Cam. 337. ARCEWE8CHE. L. Fr. An arcbbishop. ITelham, A coimption of archie* vesgue,

Lat [from area, a chest.] A treasurer. Spelman. ARCA CHIROGRAPHICA (or CHI- ROQRAPHORUM) JUD-^ORUM. L. Lat. The charter chest of the Jews. A common chest, with three locks and keys

FLat. arckiepiseopus, Fr. orehieves^,] In Englisb ecclesiastical law. Tbe cbief of tbe clergy in bis province, baviog supreme power under the king or queen in all ecclesiastical ca

In Englisb ecclesiastical law. A court held before appointed by tbe archdeacon, and !'bis official. 3 Steph. Com. 430. Its jurisdiction comprises the granting of iprobates and admi

\L. Lat. curia de arcuhus:\ In English ecclesiastical law. A court of appeal, and also of original jurisdiction, belonging to tbe archbishop of Canterbury; so called from its bayin

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[L. Lat. archiva, from area, a chest, or Gr. d^/cioy, ancient, or d^jeia, public registers.] A place or apartment where the public papers or records of a state or community are dep

Fr. Forcible. L.Fr. Diet.

Lat. Close and safe custody. See In areta, Ac.

Fr. To bind; to compel or force. Id.

Lat. [from arcus, an arch.] Fashioned like an arch; arched. Towns. Pl. 188.

Fr. [from Lat. ardere.] To burn. Mirr. c. 1, § 8. See Ardour.

Fr. [from arder, q. v.] A burner; an incendiary. Ardours de mesons; burners of houses. Britt. c. 29. Ardours «an< ^t ardent cite, ville, maison, beast, ott autreschateux; burners a

Lat. A floor. Tovm.PLl Sl, A piece or plot of ground. Spelman. In the civil law. A vacant space in a city; a place not built upon. Locus sine edificio in urbe area appellatur. Dig.

Fr. To render, to yield. Profits a rendre comprise rents and services. Hammmd's N, Prius, 192. (Am. ed.) A vcscrlptis Talet argBBieatBBi* An argument drawn from original writs in t

Aremes, Arnenez, L. Fr. Arraigned; brought to the bar of the court; put to answer; called m question. Britt. c. 4. Kelham,

Fr. A certam sum assessed by way of fine for beaupleader. Kelham.

Lat. To rent out, or let at a certain rent. Cawell. See Arrentare.

Arrmtatio. L. Lat. A renting or rent. Beg. Orig. 257 b. See Arrentatio.

Fr. [L. Lat. a retro.] Behind, in arrear. Rien en arrere, (q. v.;) nothing in arrear. Back, again. [L. Lat. re-, iterum.] Les beestes viendrent a luy arere; the beasts shall come b