A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Z. /. In old English law. To rent out, or let at a certain rent V. Arrentare.

arrentatlo, I. I. In old English law. A renting or rent V. Arrentatio.

I. fr. Hindrance; delay; prejudica

L I. In old English law. Full weight, or aver de pois.

averpeny. In old English laic. Money contributed toward the king's averages; or money given to be freed thereof.

areiter, I. fr. To stop or stay; to arrest v. Areister.

I. I. In old English law. Behind; in arrear.

An abbreviation of arguendo, q. v.

I. In the civil law. The business of a dealer in money. V. Argentarius.

In old English law. A dealer in money; a silversmith. Argentarius miles: a kind of money porter in the exchequer; a person who carried the silver from the lower to the upper excheq

L I. An old French coin, answering nearly to the English shilling.

I. In the civil and old English law. A silver mina

Z. In old English law. Silver; silver plate; silver bullion, or uncoined silver. Money paid by. weight; money generally; money paid by tale, or counted. Goods generally. Argentum a

I In arguing; in the course of argument Arguendo et redargnendo: arguing and confuting. ArgnmentatiTC Indirect; inferentiaL A pleading is argumentative where the important part of

I. Argument, especially of the presumptive kind. Inference; presumption; evidence; presumptive evidence. Argumentum a commnniter a«cidentibas in jnre freqnens est: an argument from

arribannnm, I. I In old Ev/ropean law. A fine for not joining the army, when called out by public summons; the summons or proclamation itself, v. Arri-eribannum; Herebannum.

v. Arrierban.

I. I In mediceval law. A class of freemen employed in agriculture, otherwise called conditionales, originarii, tributales, etc.

arddelw, arddel, br. or w. In Welsh and old English law. To avouch.

L In old English law. Weapons offensive and defensive; arms or cognizances of families.. Arma capere or suscipere: to take upon one the order of knighthood; to be made a knight Arm

I In the civil law. The taoklings or equipments of a ship.

I In the civil law. Armed force, v. Vis armata.

1 1. In old English law. Armor; the use of weapons.

arinig. 2. In fetidal and old English law. One who bears arms; an armor-bearer, or shield-bearer. A knight's attendant An esquire; one who bears arms, or coat armor. A species of f

A portion of the sea where the tide flows and reflows.

I. fr. A weapon.

Weapons offensive and defensiva v. Arma; Force and arms.

L fr. Arms; armor; armed men.

1. 1 In civil and old English laio. A place where reeds grow..Irnra, arrura, I. I. In old English law. A or the ploughing; the< labor of ploughing; a day's work at the plough. Ai T

arpenuus, arpendus, arpeutum, I. I. An arpent; an old English measure of land. Various other forms of the word occur in old laws and writers as arpennum, arpendium, arapennis, arep

I In the civil law. Earnest; evidence of a completed bargain. V. ArrhA,

In old English law. Earnest v. Arra; Dum tamen, etc

I. fr. Mad or insane, v. Home, etc.

1. 1 In old English law. An arraying or array; the array, v. Array; Calumpniavit, etc.

L I In old English law. To array; to set in order. Arraiatus: arrayed. Arraiatio pedituiu; an arraying of foot-soldiers, v. Array,

I I. In old English law. Array ers; commissioners of array; ofl Bcers who had care of the soldiers' armor.

To call one accused of crime to answer in form of law; to call him to the bar of the court to answer the matter of which he is indicted, or, according to Lord Coke, it is to take o

I. fr. In old English law. To arraign, v. Arraign.

The form or ceremony of arraigning, v. Arraign.

arranare, arannare, I. I. In old English law. To arraign; to conduct in an orderly manner; to prosecute, institute or bring.

I. I. A word of frequent occurrence in Bracton, and constantly applied to the ancient proceeding by assise; usually translated by the modern word arraign, arramare having been corr

To rank or set in order. To array a panel is to rank or set the jurors' names in order.

A ranking or setting in order; the order in which jurors' names are ranked in the panel containing them; the panel itself; the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court v.

I. fr. To array, v. Arayer.

arrearages, arrerages. Money remaining unpaid after it has become due; as, rent, interest, wages, the balance of an account, etc.

arect, arret, aret, arrectare, arretare, I. I. In old English law. To accuse or charge before a court; to account, reckon or consider; to impute, or lay to; to lay to the charge. A

arrette, arete, I fr. Accused of crima

An old Scotch form of arrest

I I. To arraign. Arrenatus: arraigned, accused, v. Arraign.

arrendar. In old Scots law. To let at a certain rent

In old English law. To let at a rent

I. I. In old English law. To rate or assess; to let at a certain sum, or rent v. Arrent.

Z. I. In old English law. A renting; arrentation; the licensing of an owner of lands in a forest to inclose them with a low hedge and small ditch, under a yearly rent

arrieragium, I. I. In old English and Scots law. An arrearage; the balance due on account; a residue or remainder; rent due and unpaid, v. Arrears.

I. fr. Behind, v. Arere; Arriere.

To stop or stay by authority of law. To stop or detain a person, and resti-ain his liberty until he complies with some exigency of law. To stop or stay a legal proceeding; particul

The act of stopping or staying a person or proceeding by authority of law. The restraint of a person's liberty by the actual seizure or apprehension of his body, or otherwise, in e

arestare, I. I. In old English law. To arrest; to take or seize a person; to take or seize a chattel. Arrestari et imprisonari: to be arrested and imprisoned. Arrestentnr corpora e

I. I. In old English law. Arrestment; an arrestment or arrest Arrestatio navinm: arrestment of ships.

In Scots law. The person in whose hands the movables of another, or a debt due to another, are arrested by the process of arrestment V. Arrestment.

In Scots law. The person in whose behalf process of arrestment is issued.

In Scots law. The seizure and securing of a criminal's person till he undergoes trial or gives bail. A process for securing movable effects in the hands of the possessor till the p

I. I. In old English law. Arrest

arrettare, arrectare, I. I. In old English law. To accuse or charge; to summon for the purpose of accusing; to summon to answer a charge. Arrettatl: accused or charged.

arra, I. In the civil law. Earnest; evidence of a completed

arral)0, 1. In the civil law. Earnest; money given to bind a bargain.

Indefinite services formerly demandable from tenants, but prohibited by statute 30 Geo. IL, c. 50.

arrierebau, fr., Arrieribannum, i I The proclamation by which the arriere vassals, or inferior feudatories of a sovereign, were summoned to military service; the assembling of the

w fee. In feudal law. A dependent fief or fee; an inferior fief granted by a vassal of the king, out of the fief held by him. V. Subinfeudation, Arriere vassal: the vassal of a vas

L I. In old English law. Arrivage; arrival; the coming to a place or port Arri Taginm nayium et batelloram: a place of common resort of merchants and shipping.

To come to, or reach a place by traveling or moving towards it In the law of marine insurance, to reach that' particular place in a harbor which is the ultimate destination of the

adrogatio, I In the civil law. The adoption of a person sui juris, which was done by imperial rescript v. Adoption.

I. In the civil law. One who adopted by arrogation. v. Arrogatio.

Z. fr. A ploughing; a day's work at ploughing.

arseun, arsine, I. fr. Burning. An old form of arson, q. v.

The wilful burning of the house or outhouse of another. The burning and consuming of any part is sufficient to constitute arson, but a mere attempt to burn by setting fire to a hou

In old English law. Burning, pi melting; the trial or assay by flre of coin in order to test its purity; the loss of weight occasioned by this process.

In Scots law. Contriver and partner. A term used to denote an accessory before and after the fact and also an aider and abettor in the commission of a crime; generally considered e

A distinct part of an instrument, consisting of two or more particulars. A species of pleading in the English ecclesiastical courts, which is put in the form of objection or charge

A person bound by articles to eerve an attorney or solicitor as a clerk for a term in consideration of instruction in the principles and practice of the profession.

A writing drawn up in an articulate form, that is, under distinct heads or divisions; as, a system of rules established by legal authority, e. g. articles of war, articles of the n

I. In old English law. Articles; items or heads. Applied to some old statutes, and occasionally to treatises, v. Articles. Articuli ad Novas Narrationes: articles on the New Tales,

I. In old English law. An article or point; a point or moment of time. V. In articulo, etc.; In ipso, etc.

Made by art; created by law; the opposite of naturaL Artificial persons: persons created by law for the purposes of society and government; as, a corporation. Artiflcial presumptio

I. fr. To wit; to say. v. Cest asaver.

assarer, asaver, a sayer, I. fr. To be understood; to wit V. Assaver; Cest ascavoir.

I. fr. To certify or make known.

To go or pass up or upwards; to go or pass in the ascending line. estate ascends as the next heir; an heir V. Ancestor.

To ascend; to go up or upwards; line of kindred. In the civil law, the form scent.

I In the feudal law. Ascendants. succedunt: ascendants do not succeed. In adscendentes. v. Ascendant.

I. fr. Assent; knowledga

Passage upwards; the passing of an ascending line.

I fr. Knowing; knowingly.

I. In old English law. A species in ancient demesne, v. Adscriptitii.

I. Enrolled; registered, v. Adscriptus.

asone, I. fr. Essoin, v. Essoin.

1. 1. In old English law. To carry carried away. Asportatus: carried away.

The carrying away of goods; Asportation is essential to the of Eense of from the place in which the thing was found

I. L In old English law. One goods.

I. I. He carried away. Sometimes denote a carrying away.