Anni Nubiles

(Lat. marriageable years). The age at which a girl becomes by law fit for marriage; the age of twelve. ANNICULUS (Lat.) A child a year old. Calv. Lex. ANNICULUS TRECENTESIMO SEXAgesimo quinto die dicitur, Inclpiente plane non exacto die, quia annum civiliter non ad momenta temporum sed ad dies numeramur. We call a child a year old on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, when the day is fairly begun, but not ended, because we calculate the civil year not by moments, but by days.

Dig. 50. 16. 134; Id. 132; Calv. Lex. ANNIENTED (Fr. aneantir).

Abrogated, or made null.

Litt. § 741.

ANNO DOiVIINI (Lat. the year of qjir Lord; abbreviated A. D.) The computation of time from the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. The Jews began their computation of time from the creation; the Romans, from the building of Rome; the Mohammedans, from the Hegira, or flight of the prophet; the Greeks reckoned by Olympiads; but In a complaint, the year of the alleged offense may be stated by means of the letters "A. D.," followed by words expressing the year.

4 Cush. (Mass.) 596.

But an indictment or complaint which states the year of the commission of the oflfense in figures only, without prefixing the letters "A. D.," is insufficient.

5 Gray (Mass.) 91.

The letters "A. D.," followed by figures expressing the year, have been held sufficient in several states.

3 Vt. 481; 1 G. Greene (Iowa) 418; 35 Me. 489; 1 Bennett & H. Lead. Cr. Cas. 512.

AN NONA (Lat.) Barley; corn; grain; a yearly contribution of food, of various kinds, for, support. Annona porcum, acorns; annona frumen^ turn hordeo admixtum, com and barley mixed; annona pants, bread, without reference to the amount. Du Cange; Spelman; Cowell. The term is used in the old English law, and also in the civil law quite generally, to denote anything contributed by one person towards the support of another; as, si quis mancipio annonam dederit, if any shall have given food to a slave. Du Cange; Spelman.