Affection
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money, of the discharge of some other duty or service. Tech. Diet. AFFECTUS (Lat.) Movement of the mind; disposition; intention. One of the causes for a challenge of a juror is propter affectum, on account of a suspicion of bias or favor.
3 Bl. Comm. 363; Co. Litt. 156.
AFFECTUS PUNITUR LICET NON SEquitur effectus. The intention is punished, although the consequence do not follow.
9 Coke, 56.