A Law Dictionary and Glossary

The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate, whether upon grant by the lord,upon surrender by the former tenant, or upon descent

v. De, etc.

I. In the civil law. To admit; to receive; to accept; to allow; to acknowledge; to commit, as an of Eensa

I The warning given to a prisoner who stands mute before subjecting him to the paine forte et dure.

adnnllare, 1. 1. In old English law. To annul; to reduce to nothing; to treat as nothing; to avoid.

I. In old English law. A fine imposed for adultery or fornication. In the civil law. Adultery; the corrupting of the wife of another.

I. I To annul, v. Adnihilare.

I. In the civil law. The subscription of a signature to an instrament; a rescript of the prince or emperor, signed with his own hand.

I In the civil law. Adolescence, or youth; the age between puberty and majority, beginning in males at fourteen, in

I. In the civil law. Adoption cliild of another as one's own. to the person adopting and the

I. In the civil law. for or in addition to another; one, that the promisor does.

I. In civil and old English qiiiritur possessio: possession is

adretiare, addressare, right; to satisfy; to make amends.

I. In old English law. An advocate or pleader; a patron or defender; a person having a right to present to a church; an advowee; one who was called or vouched to warranty; a vouche

assalire, I. I. In old European attack.

I. In the civil law.

aseribere, I. In the civil ^y a codicil; to add one's name annex or bind in writing.

adscripticius, ascriptitius, annexed or bound to. Adscriptitii: annexed to the land, and had no In old English law. Adscriptitii strioted to the soil. A term applied

ascriptus, I. In the civil bound in or by writing; registered, enrollment; united, joined, scriptus glebai: annexed to the adscripti glebce and passed to the to which they belonged

I. I. To insure, or assure. surance; assurance. In old English laiv. To make secure sureties.

assessores, I In old title of masters in chancery. In the civil law. Persons employed vice.

I. In the civil laio. To pany with others; to assign; to

1. 1. Then. Adtuuc existens:

In English ecclesiastical law. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the right of presenting a person to the bishop for admission to a vacant benefice.

A person of full age.; the taking or choosing of a Adoptivus: adoptive. Applied both person adopted. A surety; one who binds himself who engages to do the same thing law. To acquir

I. In the dvil law. An adulterer; one who corrupts the wife of another. Adnltei'la: an adulteress; a woman guilty of adultery.

I. In the civil law. To adulterate; to corrupt; to falsify; to forge or counterfeit. Adulterare rationes: to forge accounts.

2. In the civil law. Counterfeiter; a forger. Adulteratores nionetoe: counterfeiters of money.

In old English law. Unlawful; unlicensed; unauthorized.

I. In old English law. Corrupt; spurious; counterfeit; forged; unlawful; unauthorized; adulterine. In the civil law. Unlawful; illegitimate; spurious; false or forged. Adnlterina m

At common law, sexual intercoui-se between a man and a married woman not his wife; but now, commonly, such intercourse between a married person, male or female, and a person marrie

To supply beforehand, as, to advance money or materials; to set for%vard, as, to set forward a cause on the calendar that it may sooner come up for consideration.

Money or property given to a child by a father or any one in loco parentis in anticipation of inheritance.

Z. In the civil law. One who comes from abroad; one who makes a temporary stay in a place.

avener, aveigner, fr. To come to; to become. Adveigne: happens; becomes.

The period between the Sunday that falls on November 30 (St Andrew's day), or comes nearest to that date, and Christmas.

adventicius, I. In the civil law. Coming from without, from another person or thing; from an unusual course; adventitious; foreign; accidental; incidental; accessory.

1. 1. An adventure. Adventuras maris: adventures of the sea; flotson, jetson and lagon.

fr. and eng. A chance or accident, risk or hazard; a thing sent to sea at the risk of the sender, to be sold for his benefit by the supercargo; a thing which a seaman is permitted

I. In the civil law. Adverse; unfavorable; opposite. Adversa fortuna: adverse fortune. Adversa valetudo: adverse or ill health; — excusat: ill health is an excuse. ment or privileg

Z. In the civil law. Against; adverse; opposite; afflictive. Adversns bonos mores: against good morals.

avisamentnm, 1. 1. Advisement; advice.

I. I To advise; to see to; to look to or into; to consider or deliberate.

I I. To be advised; to be prepared for decision by examination and deliberation.

To consider, examine, deliberate, consult; to give advice; to give information or notice of facts. Advised: prepai-ed to give judgment after examination and deliberation.

The consultation or deliberation of the court after argument and before decision.

I. 1. In old English law. To call to or upon; to call in aid; to call upon one to warrant another's title; to vouch; to avow; to acknowledge or openly admit, accept, justify and ma

I. Jr. The ofl Sce of an advocate; advocacy.

I. In old English, law. A patroness; a woman having the right of presenting to a churcli.

One who is called upon to assist or defend another; a defender, patron or protector; one called and privileged to give legal advice or assistance, particularly by way of argument o

Lord. In Scots law. The chief crown lawyer and public prosecutor.

I. I. In old English law. The right of advowson or presentation. In old European law. The management of any public business intrusted to one by his superior; the defense or patrona

/. In the civil law. Advocates of the fisc, or revenue; fiscal advocates.

I. In old English law. An advowson; the right of presentation or calling to a vacant church or benefice; a taking into protection; an avowry in replevin. In the civil law. Advocacy

1. 1 In old practice, one who called on or vouched another to warrant a title; a voucher. Adrocatns: the person called on or vouched. In Scots law. An appellant. '

advoe, I. fr. A person skilled in the law; an advocata

fr. To avow; to admit; to acknowledge and justify, v. Advocare; Avow.

In English ecclesiastical law. A pati-on; one who has a right to present to a benefice; the holder of an advowson.

avowtry. Adultery, so called in old statutes. Advowterer: an adulterer. Advowtress: an adulteress.

I. fr. In old English law. To pull or hook; to usurp; to attempt to exercise; to proces: to stay a process.

/. To accuse; to charge with an offense. se debet nisi coram Deo: no one is bound to before God. v. Nemo tenetur, etc.

afi'oire, I. fr. To do, to make; to be done, made, had or taken.

I. In old English law. To desire.

I. In civil and old English law. Intention; disposition. Affectus pnnitur licet non sequatur elfectus: the intention is punished though the consequences do not follow. Affectns tun

affere. In old English law. In practice, to tax or assess; to liquidate or reduce to a precise sum; to moderate, mitigate or regulate. A term applied to the regulation of amercemen

alferement, affearment. In old English law. The assessment liquidation or mitigation of an amercement

alferatores, I. I. In old English law. Persons appointed in courts leet to afeer, i. e., to assess and moderate amercements.

aiferont, I. fr. Proportion. ^

I. fr. To let to farm. To confirm or establish; to make sure. V. Affirmer.

Z. I. A declaration or statement in writing firmed before some officer having authority to affirmation. The oath or affirmation is essential, been held unnecessary, though required

In old law. To put on file. Now shortened

The assignment of a child to a parent the process of determining a man to be the child and charging him with the support of it.

I. In the civil law. Adjacent or boi-dering marriage. Affinis mei affinis non est mihi lated by marriage to a person related to me affinity to me.

I. In the civil law. Relation by marriage;

Relation by marriage; the relationship by the husband or the wife and the blood relations larger sense, kinship or consanguinity.

To ratify or conflrm a law or judgment; larly to confirm a judgment or decree on appeal firm a former act; to assert or declare solemnly oaths; to aver or state a thing in pleading

One who affirms instead of making oath.

I. I. In feudal law. One who has given tenant by fealty. Allidata: a woman affianced.

aflert, aflfert, /r. It belongs; it behooves. long. V. Afiert.

adfines, I. In the civil law. Relations or riage; related by marriage; neighbora who own cent lands.

I. fr. Kindred by marriaga

The confirming or ratifying of a law more particularly the confirmation of a judgment peal; the confirmation or adoption of an act, tion by a person of full age of an act done duri

I. In old English law. To make firm; \to farm out; to aver or state in pleading. Afflrmanti, non neganti, incumbit probatio: the one affirming, not the one denying, in Scots law. T

That which affirms; opposed to that which denies. Afflrmatlve pregnant: an affirmative averment implying a negative in favor of the adverse party. Afflrmative statute: a statute in

I. I. In old English law. To affeer.

I. fr. To estimate, assess or tax.

aforce. In old English law. To apply or exercise force; to use compulsory measures; to increase or add to. Afforcing the assise: the producing of a verdict by adding jurors until t

aforcer, I. fr. To strengthen; to increase or add to; to enforce or compel.

aforciamentum, 1. 1. In old English law. A fortress or sti'onghold; the calling of a court upon a solemn or extraordinary occasion, v. Aforciamentum.

affortlare, I. I. To make strong; to use or apply strength or force; to increase, to add to. Affortietur assisa: the assise shall be afl Eorced.

h, Afforest. In old English law. To convert into forest

L fr. To affranchise; to set free.

An unpremeditated fight in a public place between two or more persons, to the terror of others, with a stroke given or offered, or a weapon drawn.

afli'etainentum, 1.1. In old English law. A freightment, or an affreightment

The freighting or affreighting of a ship; the hiring and letting to hire of a ship for the carriage of goods on a certain voyage for a stipulated. compensation.

fr. In French law. The hiring of a vessel; affreightment Affreter: to hire a vessel; to affreight. Affretenr: the hirer of a vessel; the affreighter.

afri, affra, I. I. In old English law. Plough cattle, bullocks or plough horses. Affri, or afri carucae: beasts of the plough; draught cattle. Affri carectse: beasts of the cart

One who makes an affidavit v. Deponent.

/. fr. An affeeror. v. Affeeror.

I. In old English lau: Intention; diposition. Affectio tna noinen imponit operi tuo: your disposition gives name to your work or act V. Actus; Affectus.