A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I. In canon and feudal law. A plighting faith; an affiance. Affidatio domlnoram: an lords in parliament.

I. I Belongs; goes to. Afierent: belong.

fr. and eng. The plighting of troth or faith, upon an agreement to marry.

I, I In old English law. An afforcement; a strengthening or adding to; increase. Aforciamentum plegiorum: aforcement of pledges. Aforciamentum distrlctionis: aforcement of a distre

Before said, mentioned or recited. In general, it refers to the last antecedent

Premeditated, v. Malice.

Subsequent; exclusive of; subject to. It does not necessarily refer to time, but may refer to order in point of right or enjoyment After-acqnired: acquired after some event or proc

after-month. The second crop of grass; the right to such crop.

I. fr. An award. Agarda: to award; to adjudge; to condemn or sentence; the formal word in giving judgment Agardomns: we award.

awe, aive, I fr. Water.

The period of life at which persons become legally competent to do certain acts or perform certain functions which for want of age they are before incompetent to do or perform; the

The relation or ofi Sce of an agent; the administration or management of the business of another person in his behalf and upon his authority, v. Agent.

I. I In the Saxon law. The real master or owner of a thing; the real possessor.

1. One who does an act; an actor or doer. Agentes et consentientes pari poena plectentnr: those who do an act, and those who consent to it shall suffer the same punishment In civil

One who acts upon employment in the name and place of another who is called the principaL An agent may be a special agent, an agent tV e., for the doing of a special act or acting

awenhine, awnhine, agenhine, Sax. In the Saxon law. An inmate; one belonging to the family or household; a guest for whom, by reason of the length of his stay (a stay to the third

I. fr., Age-prayer. In old English law. A prayer for indulgence on account of want of age; a suggestion of non-age in an action to which an infant is a party with a request for a s

I In the civil law. A field; a try, with no building upon it, land generally.

I. I, In old English law. An

A making worse; a enormous; in pleading, matter

Composed of several; together, v. Corporation.

I. The meeting ing together of the minds of the of a contract

sax. In the Saxon law. Free customary fine or compensation gild ovweregild. v. Oild; Weregild.

sax. An observer; an informer.

I I In old English keeper of the herd in a common

ital. A term used in commerce between coin and other currency.

I. fr. To lie. Agisant: lying.

To put, place, or lay to or near sign, fix or apportion the number tain ground; to adjust, apportion to take in cattle to feed or pasture In ancient law. To take in and king's fore

1. 1. In old English or feeding of cattle, especially in for repairing banks, dykes or lands benefited.

1 1 In old English law. to assign or apportion cattle to a a tax; to use for the purposes of cattle; to feed other animals; to

1. 1 In old English law. for the repairing of sea-walls. / receiver; a person who is at once it is done. piece of land or place in the councorresponding with area in a city; acre.

agistor. A bailee of cattle in agistment; one who takes cattle to pasture for certain compensatioa

The taking in of cattle to pasture for certain compensation.

adgnasci, I. In the civil law. To be born to one; to have issue after making a will.

agnats. Belations upon the side of the father.

agnati, adguati, I. In the civil law. Belations upon the side of the father. These include cognati, but not e converso.

Derived from or through a male.

L In the civil lata. Relation on the side of the father; birtb, an additional birth, especially after a will.

I fr. To acknowledge. Aguise, agnize: acknowledge.

I. In the Roman law. An additional name; a name assumed or added by way of nick-name.

Relating to land, or the division or distribution of land.

I. I. In old European law. A tax upon, or tribute payable out of, land.

I. I. In old English law. To agree. Agreavit: be agreed. Agreamentnm, or aggreamentnm: agreement; an agreement

To come together; to unite or concur; to assent or promise mutually; thus, the proper sense implying mutuality, action by and between several persons; more loosely, to assent, to p

In Scots law. Agreement; an agreement

A coming together in opinion or determination; a union of minds; a mutual assent as to a thing done or to be done; thus, the proper sense implying mutuality, action by and between

aggreer, I. fr. To agree; to admit or allow. Agree: agreed; allowed or admitted. Agree per le court: agreed by the court

fr. In French maritime law. To rig or equip a veeseL Agrez: the Hgging or tackle of a vessel.

I. Lands. Agri ab nniversis per vices occnpantnr; arva per ennos nntant: fields are occupied by all in turn; arable lauds change yearly.

A subsidy granted to the king; assistance in defending an action; assistance in the commission of a crime. In feudal law. Aid, ayde: a service or payment from a vassal to his lord,

The effect of a verdict to cure an error or omission in pleading where no objection is taken before verdict. It is presumed that the facts without which the verdict could not have

v. Abettor; Aider.

ayd-pryer. In old law. A proceeding by which a defendant in a real action, the holder of a limited interest in the land in suit, sought the aid of his lord or reversioner in defend

aile, ayel, ayle, fr. A writ which lay formerly at suit of the heir to recover lands on the seisin of his grandfather, where a stranger entered on the day of the grandfather's deat

aflforare, affurare, /. I. In old English law. To affeer, or affere. v. Affeer. Afferatus, afforatns: affeered or assessed.

I. I. In old practice, to pledge by oath; to swear to, or make oath. V. Affidavit. In feudal law. To give or swear fealty to the lord.

adfixns, I. In the civil law. Affixed; fixed or fastened to.

ailors, aylours, /. fr. Elsewhere; otherwise; besides.

fr. In French feudal law. The right of the eldest born; esnecy.

In Scots law. The court of justices itinerant It corresponds with the English eyre. Heir.

Hirer, Z. /r. To plough. Aireau: a plough.

In old Scots law. Accessory; contriver and partner.

I. l, Aisement, I. fr. In old English law. An easement or privilege, v. Easement.

fr. To adjudge; to award. Ajuge: adjudged. Al, I. fr. At the; to the; with. Al aid de Dieu: with the aid of God. Al armes: with arms. Al barre: at the bar. Al comon ley arant, etc.

fr. In old French law. To summon; to adjourn.

1. 1 In old English law. White rent; money rent; rent payable in silver as distinguished from rent payable in com or provisions, called redditiis nigre, or black rent

I. I In old French law. The state or condition of an alien or foreigner; alienage; albanage.

albinus, II In old French law. ■ A stranger; an alien, or foreigner.

1. 1. In old English law. Whiteners. Albatores coriorum: whiteners of skins or leather.

I. I. In old French law. The state or condition of an alien. Albinatus jus, albanagii jus: a former right of the French king upon the death of an alien to all of his property unles

sp. In Spanish law. A magistrate or judga

A member of the common council of a city or incorporated town, elected by and representing the inhabitants of a particular ward, and having the authority of a civil magistrate, and

Lat. In old English law. An alderman. Aldermannus civitatis vel burgi: alderman of a city or borough; the original of the modern office. Aldermannus comitatus: alderman of the coun

1 1 Aldermanry; aldermanship; the office of an alderman.

I. I. In old European law. A freedman. Aldia: a female born of a free mother. Aldiones: sons or children of a freedman.

I In the civil law. A game of chance.

I. In the civil law. A gamester.

Hazardous; uncertain. Aleatory contract: a contract the performance of which on either side depends on an uncertain event

An ale taster; an officer anciently appointed in court-leet to examine and assay beer and ale, and see that the sale was at the proper prices. i

I. fr. To relieve; to redress; to ease. Alegge: relieved, redressed, eased.

alfeiirer, aiforer, I. fr. To tax, assess, regula))»; to affeer.

The cauldron containing the water in which, in the ordeal by boiling water, the accused dipped his arm.

I. I. Other wrongs; the emphatic words of the conclusion, "et alia enormia ei intulit," etc., of the declaration in trespass, adding thus a general statement of injuries to the spe

aliaunce, alienee, alliance, I fr. Confederacy; allegation; allegiance.

I. Otherwise; at another time; on another occasion; formerly; before. A word in the Latin forms of English writs referring to a writ issued before in the same causa v. Prcecipimus,

I. Elsewhere. A defense to a charge of crime showing that the

I To oppose an impediment to another's business.

sui profusns, I. Greedy of others' property, wasting his own. Alien! generis: of another kind. Alienl juris: under the control of another, e. g., a parent or a guardian; opposed to

aliene, alienate. To transfer or convey. In general, applied to the transfer of lands and tenements.

A person born in a foreign country, and not naturalized. In English law, a pei Son born out of the allegiance of the king; in American law, a person born out of the jurisdiction of

The state or condition of an alien.

I. fr. Alien friend; in international law, an alien, subject or citizen of a friendly power or state

I. In civil, feudal and old English law. To alien, or alienate; to make another's; to transfer to another. In the civil law, the term implied delivery of possession. In the common

l, Alienation. The transfer of ownership; conveyance. Especially applied to the transfer of real property. Alienatio licet protaibeatur, consensu tamen omninm in qaornm favorem pro

aliaunce, I. fr. Confederacy; combination.

I. fr. and eng. A purchaser.

I. fr. To alien; to convey or sell.

I. In old English law. One born abroad; an alien born; an alien. Alienigena est alienee gentis, sen alienae ligentise, qui etiam dicitur peregrinus, alienus, exoticus, extraneus: a

The state, condition or character of an alien.

alien-nee, 1. fr. An alien born; a plea of alienage.