Law Dictionary

nu. The decision or determination rendered by arbitrators or commissioners, or other private or extrajudicial deciders, upon acontroversy submitted to them; also the writing or doc

awardum, I. I. In old English law. An award; the verdict of a jury.

if an award be good in part and bad in part, and that part in which it is bad be not within the submission, it shall not invalidate that which is good within the submission... For

awarded compensation in a formal order." Sea-Land, supported by the Director, OWCP, responds that "awarded compensation" means "statutorily entitled to compensation because of disa

The term "awardee" means the legal entity to which Federal assistance is awarded and that is accountable to the Federal Government for the use of the funds provided.

For the purposes of this section, the term “award or increased award” means— (1) an original award or award based on a supplemental claim; or (2) an award that is increased because

The term "award personnel" means principal investigators and co-principal investigators, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and other employees supported by a grant, coop

In this subsection, the term “award recipient” means an undergraduate student who has been awarded a scholarship under subsection (a)(1)(A) or a graduate student who has been award

An award under the Workmen's Compensation Law is not made on the theory that a tort has been committed; on the contrary, it is upon the theory that the statute giving the commissio

Aweroust, Awroust, Atorust. L. Fr. Doubt, ambiguity, uncertainty. Kelham. L. Fr. Diet.

the Commissioner has consistently construed travel 'away from home' to exclude all trips requiring neither sleep nor rest, regardless of how many cities a given trip may have touch

A crop sown before the expiration of a tenancy, which cannot ripen until after its expiration, to which, however, the tenant is entitled. Broom, Leg Max. 306. See "Emblements."

See A, 3, A 1; Appurtenance; Furniture, Of ship. A vessel fastened to a pier is not "lying at anchor;"'' nor is a vessel purposely beached, though having an anchor out for caution.

Where property has been arrested in an admiralty action in rem and ordered by the court to be sold, the order is earried out by a commission of appraisement and sale; in some cases

awroust, awernst, awrust, aworust, averust, I. Jr. In old English law. Doubt; uncertainty; ambiguity.

<Any animate being which is endowed with the power of veluntary motion. In the languages of the law the term includes all living creatures not human. Domiie are those which have be

or AUME. An ancient measure used in measuring Rhenish wines. Termes de la Ley. Its value varied in the different cities. Cowell.

See Third-Night-Awn- Hinde.

Awe Ahine. Sax. A domestic. See AgenhiM.

awenhine, sax. A domestic, v. Agenhine.

In logic. A self-evident truth; an indisputable truth.

In the civillaw. The age next to puberty; the last half of the period of childhood, (puerétia, ) extending from ten years and a half to fourteen. Inst. 3, 20, 9; 4 Bl. Comm. 22.

In French law. This term, which is used in Louisiana, signifies one to whom a right has been assigned, either by will, gift, sale, exchange, or the like; an assignee. An aycmt caus

aydonk, aydonqes, Ifr. Then.

I. In the civil law. An averting or turning away. A term applied to a species of sale in gross or bulk.

A grandfather.

I. fr. Besides; elsewhere;

(Scotch) Eyre; a circuit.

In Spanish law. A congress of persons; the municipal council of a city or town. 1 White, New Coll. 416; B B. F. Bonum factum, a good deed. A form of approval among the civilians.

A term used in heraldry, signifying bine.