A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. In civil and old English law. Another's; belonging to another; the property of another. Of another; done by another; the act of another. Of another country; an alien. Alienus ho

In Scots law. To support or maintain; support or maintenance; a fund of maintenance.

I. In the civil law. Aliments; means of support; as food, clothing, habitation.

Nourishment; support or maintenance; an allowance to a wife out of the husband's estate during or at the termination of a matrimonial suit for her support, present or future, — cal

I. fr. In old English law. To allow.

I. In a different view; with another purpose.

/. One; any one. Aliqnis non debet esse judex in propria causa, quia non potest esse judex et pars: one ought not to be a judge in his own cause, because he cannot be both a judge

I. Somewhat; something. Aliquid conceditur ne injuria remaaeat impuuita, quod alias non concederetur: something is conceded which otherwise would not be, lest an injury should go u

In Saxon law. One bound by oath; oath-tied.

I Otherwise; otherwise decided. Aliter tcI in alio mode: otherwise or in another way.

I. From another place; from another sourca All. The whole quantity, amount, number, extent, duration, quality or degree of; the whole. The word is to be in one sense or another acc

I. To allege or state; to bring forward or set up, as a claim or defense. Allegans: alleging. AUegans eontraria non est audiendus: one alleging contrary or contradictory tilings is

A statement to a cause by way of pounding or contesting the intestate. Allegation the property of the husband AUegatio contra factum tradicting the deed (or contra interpretationem

ligeance. The obedience to the sovereign, protection which the giance: the allegiance been naturalized. Local ident alien. Natural birth within the country otherwise in the civil l

alleggeance,

I. 1. To levy or redeem by such payment

aliance, alienee,

A striking against distinguished sometimes into each other.

1 1. To allow. used formerly to express by a court, judge or by the court on argument, tificate of a master on

Free or independent feudal. of a fact; the assertion of a fact by a party pleading; a species of pleading, used in proa will, claiming an interest in the effects of of faculties: t

fr. In French law. A piece of paper in which to write further indorsements, instrument itself.

To set apart as a share; to apportion.

The act of allotting, v. Allot. ment by a seaman of a part of his wages

alleynour, I. fr. One who conceals, ries ofE a thing.

saa;. In the Saxon law. Alms-fee; wise, Peter's pence.

almoigne, almoin, I. fr. Alms.

aulnage. In old English law. Ell with an ell; a duty for measuring and

aulnager, alneger. In old English ell; a sworn public officer whose duty it woolen cloths, seal them and collect the

alodiarius, alodarius, I. I In holder of an allodium or free estate.

alodarius, I. I. v. Aloarius.

I. I. In feudal law. One's own;

/. In the civil law. The channel or bed of a stream. Alvens derelictus: a deserted or dry bed or channel of a stream.

I. Others; a contraction of alios or alias.

I. fr. High.

Offerings upon the altar; the priest's profits; contributions; tithes.

I. Another; a different person or party; an opposite party; a third person.

I. I. One of the two; each. Alternter et qnilibet: each and every.

A making different; variation, or change. An act done upon a wi-itten instrument, whether by addition or by erasure, by which its meaning or its language is changed, — at present a

I. I. At another time; formerly.

1, I Interchangeably. Alternativa petitio non est andienda, I. An alternative petition or prayer is not to be heard.

A choice of one or another of two things; that which requires one or the other of two things to be done, e. g., an alternative writ of mandamus.

I. I. Alternately; at alternate times; by turn.

I. Not to injure another.

I fr. Also; in like manner.

I. In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the right of the owner of a house to buiid it to any height. Altns non tolendi: a servitude which restrains him from building abo

A code of sea laws compiled about the end of the" eleventh century for the republic of Amalphi.

I. A servant or messenger; a person sent about from place to place; a vassal of a free proprietor among the Gauls.

A diplomatic agent; a person sent by one sovereign power to another, with authority to treat on affairs of state.

ambodexter, i: One who uses both hands with equal facility. Hence one, as a sheriff or a juror, or an attorney, who takes money from both sides. instrument being on its face comple

l. Ambiguous. Uncertain or doubtful, spect to meaning. Ambigua responsio accipienda: an ambiguous answer is to be offers it Ambiguis casibns semper doubtful cases the presumption i

A boundary; an exterior or inclosing

I. In the Roman law. A going around ing around. A space between neighboring ience in going around them. The unlawful public office.

1.1. In civil and old English ambulatory. Ambulator! a est voluntas snpremum exitum: the will of a deceased until the last moment of Ufa v. Voluntas

Movable; not fixed or stationary character. The court of King's Bench, formerly, was ambulatory; the return of a til it is filed; and a will is ambulatory until tator.

I. fr. In old English law.

Tractable or manageable; responsible; risdiction of the court

To free from error or deficiency, v.

1. fr. To make good; to make up for intelligible, out of extrinan ambiguity by reaface of the instrument suppletur: a patent ambiverborum latens facto oritur ambignum ambiguity of

fr. A.punishment' by doing of some humble act

The correction of an error in a ceeding.

1. 1, In old English law. To rare.

1. 1 In old English law. suratio.

Ifr, To abridge; to abate; to fell.

amerciare, 1 1. To impose a pecuniary alty; to fina V. Amercement

amerciament, Amerciamentnm, ishment or penalty imposed by a court from a fine, which was a punishment arising and imposed and assessed by the court, in court and that only in gener

I fr. Brought led or carried away.

I. fr. That may be brought, led or

amener, I fr. In old English law. boste: to lead his army; to cite or summon a party to court

An action brought pursuant tween the parties to settle a doubtful matter

L I. In old English law. To lose. the court; to be deprived, of the privilege Amlttere legem terrse: to lose the law of eram legem: to lose one's frank-law. were used of one who ha

A public act or proclamation of the established authority. to lead away; to remove admeasure, v. Admensu- Admeasurement v. Admendiminish; to annihilate; to punishment or pen- LI A

1 1, Amortisement, Alienation in mortmain.

I fr., Amortise, amortize. ' lands in mortmain.

I. I. That you against the crown on a monstrans possession of the lands be restored issued on such a judgment; the V. Ousterlemayn.

I In the civil law. A moving

A moving or carrying away; chattels; a putting or turning out moval of an oi Hoer of a improperly, to the removal of a ment

I. In old English law. To remove a judicial proceeding. In the civil law. To remove; to away; to remove with felonious

I., Amplier, I. fr. In old Ampliare jurisdictionem: to justitiam: to enlarge the right, v. In the Roman law. To enlarge or

In the civil law. A consideration. An order for a

L More; more absolutely; etc. In the Roman law. More; more prs Btor, where the judices were demn, deferring the case to a day

In the Roman law. The trial of a cause; the postponement ment

v. Antrustio. Amy. V. Ami, An, ane, aenne, sax, A; one; simple An, ann, anne, I. fr. A year. An et day. An, jonr et wast: year, day Anbellareunquamjustum sit, I. war.

The absence of government In old English law. To alien amortization. In old English law. or removed; amoveabl& or taking away. a wrongful taking of personal; a dispossession of lan

l.fr.. Ancestor. One who has preceded session of real estate; one from whom by reason tate has passed to another by operation of law; estate is inherited.

Relating to ancestors; derived from an ancestral estate is an estate taken by descent

A toll paid by ships for the use of a

A house that has stood long enough mont of support against adjoining land. Ancient that have been used in their present state for to which, in England, the owner thus has a preclud

Members of the inns of court and certain standing.

Seniority of rank.

Attendant upon; auxiliary; subordinate. under a power is thus ancillary to the deed containing administration taken out where assets are prior administration taken out in another i

I. Of doubtful use. And. In written instruments often construed to construed to mean "and" where reason and parties so require.

Auctionarius, l. Lat. In old English law. A seller; a regrater; a retailer; a broker; one who bought as well as sold; or a person who loaned money; an auctioneer, in the modern sen

I In the civil law. Authority.

gr.-l. A taking of men; a species of taking by one nation of the subjects of another enforcing some claim or right

enecins, enetius, 1. 1. In old English law. born, v. ^Esnecy; Esnecy.

I. In the Roman law. The turn or road.

gr.-l. A forced service by a vessel, imposed poses; an impressment of a vessel. In the Roman law. A forced service; an in the seisin or posof his death an esone from whom an ancest

I. In the Roman law. The title at emperor, but flnally of the mother, wife, emperor. Augusta legibus solnta non est: not privileged or exempted from subjection

I fr. Made

aniente, anyent, defeated; barred.