Advowtry

or ADVOUTRY.

In English law

The crime committed by a woman who, having committed adultery, continued to live with the adulterer. Cowell; Termes de la Ley. AEDES (Lat.) In civil law. A dwelling; a house; a temple. In the country everything upon the surface of the soil passed under the term aedes. Du Cange; Calv. Lex. AEDIFICARE (Lat. from aedes, a house, and facere, to build). In civil and old English law. To make or build a house; to erect a building.

Dig. 45. 1. 75. 7.

Sometimes applied to other objects, as a ship.

Dig. 49. 14. 46. 2.

AEDIFICARE IN TUO PROPRIO SOLO non licet quod alter! noceat. It is not lawful to build upon one's own land what may be injurious to another.

Coke, 3d Inst. 201; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 331.