A Law Dictionary and Glossary

An abbreviation of assisa and assise. breviation of assisa mortis antecessoris. viation of assisa novce disseisince. v. Assisa.

6r. In old Welsh law. An oath; an tors.

assay a, I. I. In old English law. An Assaia mensurarum et ponderum: the weights. V. Assisa, etc.

assayer, I. fr. To try or essay; to saiant: trying, essaying. Assay, assaye: in the ascending line. Ascendentes non the civil law the form is to pass in the ascending is adscendere

To pull up by the roots; to clear land of trees, thickets, etc., and prepare it for, or reduce it to, tillage, v. Assartare.

essart. In English law. An offense committed in the forest, by pulling up the thickets and coverts for the deer, and making the land plain, as arable land; the land so cleared; lan

assartare, exartare, 1. 1 In old English law. To assart, or remove by the roots; to clear land. Assertare et in cnltnram redi^ere: to assart and reduee to cultivation, Assertatam:

essartnm, exartnm, 1. 1, In old English law. Assart; land cleared of its wood and converted to tillage. Sometimes termed disbocatio.

Murder committed for hire; murder by surprise or secret assault; murder by sudden violence.

assaith. An old custom of purgation in Wales, by which an accused person cleared or purged himself by the oaths of three hundred men, A.ssault. An attempt, real or apparent, by one

I fr. To be known; to make known; to give notica An old form of ascavoir, q. v.

I. fr. To make known; to certify.

In old English law. An examination, proof or trial: as, of weight and measures; of certain commodities, as bread, cloths, etc.; of the purity of metals and of coined money. This la

1. 1. In old English law. An assayer. Assayator regis: the I king's assayer.

I. I. To associate; to take or select as fellow- judges, or consessors.

adsecnrare, 1. 1 In old English law. To make secure; to assure or secure by pledges, or any solemn interposition of faith; to confirm or establish, v. Adsecurare.

adsecuratio, I. I. Assurance; a making secure. In old maritime law. Assurance or insurance of a vessel or cargo; a contract for the safe transportation of things for a certain prem

1. 1. In maritime law. An insurer.

In Scots law. A setting or letting for hire. Another name for a tack or lease.

unlawful. The meeting of three or more persons to do an unlawful act; any meeting of great numbers of people, with such

Agreement to or approval of is agreement to a thing to be dona

I I In old English law. V. Assart.

I, fr. Assart; cleared land.

To adjust or proportion; to paid; to rate or fix the proportions payment upon persons or property terms to assess and to tax were the same idea. The damages in a taxed, and the jur

asses, I. fr. Assessed; afifeered.

An adjustment or the fixing or settling of a sum to of the proportions of a tax to be tion of property for the purpose of upon persons or property by way purpose; a local tax appor

pl. assessores, adsessores, who sat with a judge or magistrate with advice.

An officer chosen or appointed

In Scots and English law. pointed to advise and direct the courts. V. Assessores.

Property in the hands of an ment of debts and legacies of the an act or thing done, as consent v. Consent. or fix; to ascertain or assesa Assart; an assart, v. Assart, To assart As

I. I. To drain water from marshy grounds.

I. In the Roman law. To act as an assessor, v. Assessor.

To transfer, to make or set over: as, to assign property or some interest therein, or to assign prisoners in custody. To appoint or designate for a particular purpose or duty; as,

An assignee; a person to whom property or a right or interest is transferred by another. Now rarely used, though the plural assigns is still retained in deeds and other instruments

Capable of being assigned or transferred; transferable; negotiable.

I. In the civil law. To assign, allot or appoint Assignare libertum: to assign a freedman to a particular child.

I. I. To assign; to transfer or make over; to allot, appoint or designate; to mark out, set off, allot or set over: as, a widow's dower. Assignavimus vos justitiarios nostros, ad i

In Scots law. An alienation or conveyance, particularly of a debt or movable subject; an assignment

I. In the civil and old English law. An assigning or assigntnent. Asslgnatlo dotis: assignment of dower.

I In old English law. An assignee, or assign. A person assigned or appointed to a particular duty. Assignatas ntitur jure aoctoris: an assignee uses the right of Iiis principal; an

assigney, o. sc. In Scots laio. An assignee.

assign. A person to whom a right or property is transferred. In old law, a pei'son deputed or appointed by another to do any act, or perform any business. Assignee by deed: a perso

assignment, 2. /r. Assignment; an assignment.

assiner, assener, I. fr. To assign. Assigner faux serement: to assign perjury.

A transfer or making over of any property real or personal, in possession or action, or of any estate or right therein: as, of an estate in lands; of a chattel personal, an equitab

One who makes an assignment

Nearly or quite synonymous with assignees, but now confined to conveyancing. Where a grantor covenants for himself, his executors, administrators and assigns, the word means any pe

L In feudal law. To assault; to attack.

I. I. In old English and Scots law. or inquest (distinguished from the often turned into it); a species of writ sittings of a court; a statute, ordinance number; a specified or det

I. I. In old English law.

I fr. Situated, v. Assisus.

assize. In English law. A species a certain number of men, usually and who sit together for that purpose and petite, v. Grand assise; Petite action to determine the right of posses

assizes. In English law. Sessions of court of assise or assize and nisi prius, formerly held by two or more commissioners called judges of assise, or of assise and nisi prius, who

1. 1. Anciently, persons who settled assises, or imposed taxes.

assysers. In Scots law. Jurors.

Aid; furtherance. A writ issued out of chancery to exe-

assisa, I. I. In old English law. Fixed or certain; situated. Assisns reditus: a fixed, certain, set or standing rent.

In old English law. To fix; to

In Scots law. A jury.

1. 1. To assess; to fix, settle, define, determine or reduce to a certainty, in point of time, number, amount, etc. Assidere, taxare et le Tare: to assess, tax and levy. Assiderunt

In Scots law. An assignea

I. I. In old pleading. To assure.

The union of a number of some common object; a company or In English laic. A writ or patent addressed size commanding them to take others, clerks of the assize, as associates, — gr

assoyle, assoiler, fr. In old excommunication; to acquit; to absolve.

In Scots law. To acquit the an accused person not guilty; to declare declare or pronounce innocent

I. fr. To essoin. Assonee: essoined.

assoudre, I. fr. To absolve; to

assons, /. fr. Quit; free; discharged.

I. fr. To forgive; to pardon; to

To undertake, v. Assumpsit.

1. 1. He assumed; be undertook, or undertaking; the name of an action person injured by non-performance of runt super se: they took upon themselves sit pro rata: he undertook agree

assurantia, I. I. An instrument ment used as evidence of title to land. hence its application to contracts of ance; Common assurance; Future

To make sure, or secure; to V. Assurance.

fr. Assured; the assured or insured.

assithment. In Scots law. maiming or laming a person; an derer to the heirs of the murdered brought by the heirs or the personal

An arraignment,— formerly raignment. regulate; to assess. persons for the attaining of society not incorporated. to the justices of the asusually learned Serjeants or at suit of a

I. fr. In old English law. A householder; belonging to, or born in one's house.

In Soots law. To bind.

In Scots law. A servitude by which the grain growing on certain lands is required to be carried to a certain mill to be ground.

sax. In Saxon law. A penalty of double the damages for breach of the king's peace.

I. I. A house, or place of habitation.

astnti, I. Acute; of nice discrimination. Courts are said to be or not to be astute in particular cases; as, astute to find reasonable distinctions to unreasonable rules; not astut

I. fr. To come to or at; to attain; to amount to,

In old English law. A reserved rent in corn, paid to religious houses by their tenants; corn drawn to the lord's granary by the cattle of the tenant

athe, I. I In Saxon law. An oath; the power or privilege of exacting and administering an oath.

One who does not believe in a God; one who denies the existence of God.

atya, acia, acya, hatia, hatya, 1. 1. In old English law. Malice, hate or hatred.

attilinm, I. I. In old English law. Tackle; the rigging or tackle of a vessel. Atilia: the tackle or harness of a horse, cart 01 plough. Atilio decenti: with suitable tackle.

Z. In old English law. Black fluid used in writing; ink.

attrenche. v. Tout atrenche. A tret, I. fr. Drawn aside.

I. A court before a house; a churchyard

To take or apprehend by cominandment of a writ or precept, commonly called an attachment, and keep for presentment in court. Applied to both persons and property, v. Attachment; Ar

/r. Attached to; connected with: as, to or with a foreign legation.

I. A distress formerly levied upon the goods of one sued for a personal debt, as a security to answer to the action.

1. 1. In old English law. To attach; to attach a person; to attach property. Attachiabitur: he shall be attached.

A taking or seizure of a person or property by virtue of a legal process; the writ or process upon which such taking or seizure is made. An attachment against the person is a writ

The extinction of civil rights and capacities which took place upon judgment of death or outlawry for treason or felony. inability to sue or be sued, and inability to bear witness

In old English law. A writ which lay to inquire whether a jury had given a false verdict, in order that the judgment might be reversed. The inquiry was made by a grand assise or ju

atteint, attaynt, taynt, I. fr. In old English law. Attainted; convicted or f oufid guilty of some offense; defeated in an action. Attain de disseisin: convicted of disseisin. Atta

ateisament, atteynement, atteynanment, I fr. Effectually; strenuously; to remain forever.