A Law Dictionary and Glossary

An ancient mode of weighing scales hanging or with hooks fastened to each

pi abactores, I. In the civil law. A driver away of cattle or other animals with intent to steal; a cattle-stealer.

I In the civil law. To alienate; to transfer without reserve.

I. In the civil law. An alienation; a transfer without reserve. Abalienatio Tel translatio dominii vel proprietatis: the alienation or transfer of the domain or right of possession

To relinquish or surrender; to desert

A person to whom a right or property is abandoned.

A relinquishment or surrender, as of property to an insurer or to creditors; a desertion, as of wife, husband or child.

1. 1. In old English law. To detect, discover or disclose a crime.

l, Abuse. In the civil law. Departure from use; immoderate or improper use.

{., Abatement. The act of abating, t. Abatare. Debts are abated among creditors when, there being not enough funds to pay them in full, they are paid in part. A freehold is abated

I. l, Abater, abatre, fr., Abate. In old English law. To cut

Lat. Diminished. v. Moneta abatuda. Abatus, fr. Beaten or thrown down; abated; quashed. Thus, mur abatu, a wall thrown down; bois abatu, wood cut or fallen; arbres abatues de vent,

A person who abates, as one who removes a nuisance, or one who enters upon land before entry by the person lawfully entitled.

1 1. In old English law. Abetment

abettare, Lat. In old English law. To abet, q. v. Abettasse et procurasse: to have abetted and procured. Abettans: abetting. Abettans, comfortans, et manutenens: abetting, comforti

In Scots law. An abstract.

I. l, Abbreviation. In old English law. Contraction in the writing in old records and law writings. Abbreviationnm ille nnmerus et sensus accipiendns est, nt concessio non sit inan

1. 1, Abbrochment. In old English law. The buying up at wholesale of goods before they are brought to market, in order to sell at retail; the forestalling of a market.

I, Abdication. Renunciation or relinquishment of an ofi Bca

I. He lurks privily; he lies hid

1.1 A place to hide and preserve goods, etc.; an abditory.

I. In old English law. To lead or carry away. Abduxit: he led away. v. Cepit et abduxit.

The fraudulent or forcible taking away of a wife, child, or ward; the unlawful taking or detaining of a female for the

In old Ekglish law. Carriage; beha-vior.

I. fr. Abatement, q. v.

sax., Abere luurdrnio, 1. 1. Plain or apparent murder; wilful murder.

I In the civil law. To be absent; to be out of possession; to be out of existence.

To instigate or encourage; to stir up, set on, or excfite. Applied more especially to the instigation to the commission of crime; and generally to the act of one who instigates bei

An instigator or setter on; one who abets, v. Abet.

abeiance, abbayance, abbaiannce, I. fr. Abeyantia, I Expectation; suspense Applied (though the doctrine of abeyance is now to some extent discredited) to an estate which cannot ves

In Scots law. A formal declaration in court by a party that he abides by a deed which is alleged to have been forged.

pi., abigei, abigeatores, I. In the civil law. One who drives away cattle in herds or repeatedly with intent to steal; a cattlestealer.

I. In the civil law. The driving away of cattle in herds or repeatedly with intent to steal; cattle-stealing.

I. In the civil law. To drive away. Applied to the driving pivia,y of cattle in herds or repeatedly with intent to steal; to cattlestealing. To expel or drive out Applied also to t

v. Mishersing.

I., Abjuration. A renunciation or abandonment by or upon oath. Abjui-ation of allegiance is an oath renouncing idelity to a particular sovereign real or pretended, v. Naturalizatio

I In old English law. To deprive by juclgment The same as forisjudicare. Abjudicatus: deprived by judgment

I In old English law. Deprivation by judgment; a putting out of court The same as /oris/udieaf 10.

l, Abjure, In old English law. To renounce or abandon by or upo Vi oath.

I In the civil lato. To abound; to be more than fuIL V, Non Solent qtuB abundant, etc.

I. In the civil law. Obliteration; e Sacement; a putting out of memory; amnesty; pardon; leave to discontinue an accusation.

A destroying or putting of an end to an action or prosecution; leave to an accuser to desist from prosecution; the same in effect as the modern entry of a nolle prosequi.

The premature exclusion of the human foetus; secondarily, the foetus so brought forth.

Near, nearly, in the neighborhood of; around, as in "about the neck."

I. fr. An abutment or abuttal, v. Abuttal.

Superior or higher, as the court above, or the plaintiff or defendant above, meaning the plaintiff or the defendant in the court above; principal, as distinguished from auxiliary,

I. In old English law. To scrape off, i. e. to erase. Abrasnm: erased.

I. In old English law. A scraping off, i. e. an erasure.

To shorten; to diminish; to condense; to epitomize; to make shorter, not in words merely, but by subtracting or omitting a portion of the substance; to deprive or cut off; to limit

l, Abrogate. In the civil law. To annul; to repeal; to take away. Applied to the repeal of laws. The English word is applied also to the abolishment of a custom by the establishmen

l, Abrogation. The act of annulling or repealing, v..4.6rogare.

To conceal one's self; to keep close; to go away privately. Applied to a debtor who thus seeks to avoid the service of process.

A being away from one's domicil or place of residence or business. Absent: away; not at one's domicil or place of residence

I In the civil law. Absent Absente: being absent.

One who has departed from the state of his residence leaving no one to represent him; one never domiciled in the state and residing abroad.

I. Jr. To absolve; to acquit; to pardon.

I., Absolute. ' Complete or perfect; witliqut exception, condition, or limitation; flnaL An absolute estate is an estate subject to no condition. Absolute property is full and comp

In Scots law. Warranty against all incumbrances.

Without. Absque aliquo inde reddendo: without rendering anything therefrom (applied to ancient grants without tenure). Absque consideratione curiae: without the consideration of th

To take or withdraw; to take away or withdraw, as to take the funds, money or credits of a bank, or to take away a public record.

An epitome; a summary; a brief of that from which it is taken. An abstract of a fine is an abstract of the writ of covenant and the concord, naming the parties, the parcels of land

Limits or bounds of land at the ends of the parcel; bounds in general. The older and stricter use of the word is in the sense of bounds at the ends of the parcel.

1. 1 In old English law. To abut Abnttans: abutting.

I I In old English law. To do homage to a chief lord on taking the feud; to acknowledge the sovereignty of a chief lord in special cases; 'to attorn to one not the chief lord and i

I. I. In old English law. Money paid by a vassal to the chief lord on taking a feud; the relief due to the chief lord.

I. I You go to the court; a common law writ to remove a cause to a higher court from an inferior court not of record. Accedas ad Tice comltem: you go to the sheriff; an English wri

L In the civil law. To go to or with; to be joined or added to; to belong to; to approach; to be near or next to; to accedfi; to assent or agrea

To shorten the time for the vesting in possession of an expectant estate or interest

I. To accept Acceptavit: he accepted.

I. Accepted and agreed. faction from an obligation either arising out of a verbal undertaliing, or (more generally) reduced to the form of a verbal stipulation.

A person who accepts a bill of exchange, v. 4-cceptaiio.

Accessus, I Approach or means of approach; the liberty of going into a place; opportunity of intercourse and actual intercourse, as between husband and wife. Accessus et recessns:

I. In old pleading, accessary; an accessary, v. Accessorius.

One who, not present at its commission, becomes guilty of a felony, as a participator, — before the fact, by procuring its commission; after the fact, by aiding the felon knowing o

I. In the civil law. Accession; a going or passing of one thing to or with another as its principal addition; an addition or increase; a mode of acquiring property as an accessory

A species of title consisting of a right to or property in a thing acquired by reason of its belonging to another thing, v. Accessio. In Scots law. A deed of accession is a deed by

I. I. In old English law. An accessory, or accessary. Accessorins sequitur: an accessary follows; —naturam sui prin cipalis: an accessary follows the nature of its principal; — pri

Z. In the civil law. An accessory thing; an incident; a thing which belongs to or is dependent upon another which is its principal. Accessorium non ducit sed seqnitnr suum principa

An incident; a thing which belongs to another thing.

Incident, appurtenant, or belonging to; in the criminal commission of crima Ac- In Scots law. Accessory action: an action "proving the tenor," for In the civil law. Accessory contr

V. Access.

I. In the civil law. An event or circumstance. Accidens diligentiam mentis humanae which cannot be prevented by the of the human mind.

A casualty; an event that expectation. In equity, any such the result of misconduct or negligence.

I. In the civil law. To fall quae, etc.

I. fr. An action. Accion snr

7. In the civil law. To will. To admit; to acknowledge. derstand; to construe. Accipere est tarn accipere quam extorquere may do justice, is not so much to Accipitur in modo solven

I. In the civil law. An a placa

ital. In maritime law. cargo and the master, under which count

2. In the civil law. strict rule; to grant or transfer as

In maritime cepted or indorsed by one person, commodation of another.

A person concerned, in the commission of a crime, v.

fr. Abbreviation of Accordant,

To agree or concur, as one

An agreement or concurrence faction for an injury. Accord upon a satisfaction for an injury,

/r. Agreeing; concurring. an action auxiliary to another, or the i-estoration of a lost deed.: a contract which is incident a surety. Accessory obligation: another, as that of a su

Liable to be called on for an account ceipt: a receipt coupled with a promise to receipt of which is acknowledged.

A person skilled in accounts; a person is to keep accounts; a person who accounts in a

fr. Married.

To give credit; to acknowledge the diplomatic agent

i. I. To purge one's self of an ofifense gation.