Law Dictionary

1. 1, Abbrochment. In old English law. The buying up at wholesale of goods before they are brought to market, in order to sell at retail; the forestalling of a market.

/., Abbrochment. The market; buying up at wholesale aU the goods,

In old English law. The forestalling of a market or fair.

The act of forestalling a market, by buying up at wholesale the merchandise intended to be sold there, for the purpose of selling it at retail. See Forestalling.

See Abuttals. ABDICATION. A simple renunciation of an office; generally understood of a supreme office. James II. of England, Charles V. of Germany, and Christina, Queen of Sweden,

I, Abdication. Renunciation or relinquishment of an ofi Bca

A renunciation; a putting away; a renunciation of the sovereignty by an incumbent thereof. James II. of England, Charles V. of Germany, and Christiana, Queen of Sweden, are said to

I. He lurks privily; he lies hid

1.1 A place to hide and preserve goods, etc.; an abditory.

An abditory or hiding place, to hide and preserve goi ds, p Jacob.

I. In old English law. To lead or carry away. Abduxit: he led away. v. Cepit et abduxit.

Lat. To lead away; to carry away. Abduxit; he led away. Applied in old writs to the taking of live animals, as distinguished from asportavit, (q. v.) F. N. B. 86 A. note. See Cepit

l. To carry away a human being. ried away.

In England. By St. 3 Hen. VII c. 2, the taking of any woman having property, or being heir apparent thereto, to be married or defiled. Under a later statute (24 & 25 Vict, c. 100),

Behavior; as, a recognizance to be of good abearance signifies to be of good behavior. 4 Bl. Comm. 251, 256.

I. fr. Abatement, q. v.

Lat. An officer having charge of the correspondence (epistolœ) of his superior or sovereign; a secretary. Calvin. ; Spiegelius.

sax., Abere luurdrnio, 1. 1. Plain or apparent murder; wilful murder.

In old English law. An apparent, plain, or downright murder. It was used to distinguish a willful murder from chance-medley, or manslaughter. Spelman; Cowell; Blount. See "Homicide

Lat. In the civil law. To be absent; to be away from a place. Said of a person who was extra continentia urbis, (beyond the suburbs of the city.)

[t]o encourage or set another on to commit a crime"); Black's Law Dictionary 6 (1891) (to "abet" is "[t]o encourage, incite, or set another on to commit a crime.

[L. Lat. abettum, abettamentum; L. Fr. abette.] In old criminal law. An encouraging, or instigation. Staundf. Pl. Cor. 105. Cowell. Blount.

See "Abettor."

An instigator, or setter on; one that promotes, procures, or assists in, the commission of a crime; a principal in the second degree. The distinction between abettors and accessari

From without. See 14 Mass. 151.

^ In expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law; in sus- \ pense.3 Subsisting in contemplation of law.* In abeyance: undetermined. Said of a fee or a freehold when there is

Suspension. See Bl. Comm. 107.

Lat. Abeyance. Spelman. See Abeyance, ABtATICUS, Awk Hcia. L. LM. In feudal law. A grandson; the son of a son. Spelman. Lib. Feudorum, cited ibid.

Lat. To cany away. dpit et abcariavit: he took and carried airaj. Dyer, 70 a.

or Aviaticus. L. Lat. In feudal law. <A grandson; the son of a son. Spelman; Lib. Feud., Baraterii, tit. 4, cited Id.

L. Lat. In feudal law. A grandson; the son of a son. Speiman; Lib. Feud., Baraterii, tit 8, cited Id.

To accept the consequences of; to rest satisfied with. To abide by an order, judgment, or decree of a court, is to conform to, to execute. Taylor v. Hughes, (Me.) 4 Greenl. 433; Ho

A stipulation that succeeding cases shall "abide the event" of a named case means that such ly successful in that case should be successful in all. 35 111. App. 660.

not merely present inhabitants, but present inhabitancy coupled with an intention of permanent residence.

In Scotch law. A judicial declaration that the party abides by the deed on which he founds, in an action where the deed or writing is attacked as forged. Unless this is done, a dec

in the English law. A defendant who pleads a frivolous plea, or a plea merely for the purpose of ‘delaying the suit; or who, for the same purpose, shall file a similar demurrer, ma

A definite conviction of guilt derived from a thorough cx- Lon Of the whole case. Hopt V. 120 U. S. 439, 7 Sup. Ct 614, 30 L. Ed. 708. ABIGEAT0RES. See Ahigeos.

pi., abigei, abigeatores, I. In the civil law. One who drives away cattle in herds or repeatedly with intent to steal; a cattlestealer.

Cattle thief.

Intheciviliaw, Cattle stealers; those who drove away cattle or other animals, with the intention of stealing them, A rarer form of abiget, (q. vy.) Calvin.

A particular kind of larceny, which is committed not by taking and carrying away the property from one place to another, but by driving a living thing away with an intention of fel

Cattle-stealers. See 4 Bl. Comm. 239.

See Auickus. ABIGEUS ( I. at. abigere). One who steals cattle in numbers. stance distinguishes the abigeus from the fur, who was simply a thief. He who steals a single animal may b

To drive out; to expel by force; to produce abortion. Dig. 47, 11, 4.

Cattle-stealer.

In divorce law. Power of husband to provide, as element of wife's right to alimony. It is sometimes called "faculty."

chancery practice. A bill in the nature of a bill of review, is one brought by a person not bound by a decree, praying that the same may be examined and reversed; as where a decrce

chancery practice. A bill in the nature of a bill of revivor, is one which is filed when the death of a party whose interest is not determined by his death, is attended with such a

From hardship, orinconvenience. Anargument founded upon the hardship of the cage, and theinconvenience or disastrous consequences to which a different course of reasoning would lea

From inconvenience.

Lat. From thence. Towns. PL 22, Applied to place only. Jd. ibid.

From the beginning. See 1 Bl. Comm. 440.

From the beginning of the world.

Intestate. 2 Lower Can. 219. AB INTESTATO (Lat. testatua, having made a will). From an intestate. Used both in the common and civil law to denote an inheritance derived from an anc

Against one’s will.

In anger.

or ABISHERSING. Quit of amercements. It originally signified a forfeiture or amercement, and is more properly mishering, mishersing, or miskering, according to Spelman. It has sinc

Quit of amercements. It originally signified a forfeiture or amercement, and is more properly mishering, mishersing or misker ing, according to Speiman. It has since been termed a

Quit of amercements. It originally signified a forfeiture or amercement, and is more properly Tnishering, mishersing, or miskering, according to Spelman. It has since been termed a

See Arbitrium .

Lat. In old laws. To forfeit one's recognizance, (vadimonium deserere;) to neglect a plea or suit, (placitum negligere;) to fail in an action, (deficere in lite;) to lose a cause b

I., Abjuration. A renunciation or abandonment by or upon oath. Abjui-ation of allegiance is an oath renouncing idelity to a particular sovereign real or pretended, v. Naturalizatio

I In old English law. To deprive by juclgment The same as forisjudicare. Abjudicatus: deprived by judgment

In old English law. The depriving of a thing by the judgment of a court; a putting out of court; the same as foris judicatio, forjudgment, forjudger. Co. Litt 100a, b; Townsh. PI.

Lat. [from a6, from, and jurare, to swear; L. Fr. forjurer.] To swear from; to swear to give up, or leave a thing, or place; to renounce or abandon by, or upon oath; to forswear. A

[Lat. ahjuratio, from abjurare, q. v.] A renimciation or abandonment by, or upon oath; the taking or ma- ' king oath to leave a place. Abjuration in this sense, in English law, usu

One of the steps in the process of naturalizing an alien. It consists in a formal declaration. made by the party under oath before a competent authority, that he renounces and abju

Anciently a person crime, except treason or sacrilege, who took or other sanctuary, might save his life by and swearing to forsake the realm.

Voluntary banishment. See 4 61. Comm. 332.

To renounce by oath.

Ability to perform work usually performed by able-bodied men. The existence of a slight disability not resulting in impairment is immaterial. 29 111. App. 382.

Papal ambassadors Of the second rank, who are sent with a less extensive commission to a court where there are no nuncios. This title is equivalent to "Envoy" (q. V.)

or ABLOCATION. A letting out to hire for money. Wharton.

Lat. In the civll law. A great-great-grandmother's sister, (abaviæ soror.) Inst. 3, 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called matertera maxima. Id. 38, 10, 10, 17. Called, by Br&cton, abmaterte

Lat. In the civil law. A great great grandson. Inst. 3. 6. 2.

Lat. A great-great-grandson. The grandson of a grandson or granddaughter. Calvin.

Lat. A great-great-granddaughter. The granddaughter of a grandson or granddaughter. Calvin.

I In the civil lato. To abound; to be more than fuIL V, Non Solent qtuB abundant, etc.

A term applied to law affecting natural relations or conditions, as if insane or of persons; v. Normal.

income of any class described in paragraph (2) includible in the gross income of the taxpayer for any taxable year under this subchapter if it is abnormal for the taxpayer to deriv

Dwelling place. See "Residence." ABOLITION (Lat. abolitio, from abolere, to utterly destroy). The extinguishment, abrogation, or annihilation of a thing. In the civil, French, and

(Gr. &gx^iow6fiia,) 9ive deprueU Anglorum hgihus. Tbe title of a collectioii of Saxon laws, made by Mr. Lambard in tbe time of Queen £lizabetb» and to wbicb additions were made by

1. Carrying weapons concealed "about" the person means: near, in close proximity, within convenient control and easy reach. 9 2. In close proximity to; closely approximating. An ag

I. In the civil law. Obliteration; e Sacement; a putting out of memory; amnesty; pardon; leave to discontinue an accusation.

The destruction, abrogation or extinguishment of anything; also the leave given by the sovereign or judges to a criminal accuser to desist from further prosecution. 25 Hen. VIII. c

The statute abolished the fellow-servant rule. If the injury was due to the neglect of a co-employee in the performance of his duty, that neglect must be attributed to the employer

Fr. In French commercial law. Collision of vessels.

any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device which is known to cause fetal death when employed in the usual and customary use for which it is manufactured, whet

the termination of human pregnancy with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus.

a clinic, physician's office, or any other place or facility in which abortions are performed, other than a hospital.

A term descriptive of the result when a case has gone off, and no verdict has been pronounced, without the fault, contrivance, or management of the parties. Jebb & B. 51.

The fruit of an abortion; the child born before its time, incapable of life. See Abortion; Birtii; Breath; Dead-born; Gestation; Life.

around, doesn't it? "[A.] It was, your Honor, it was meant to mean about the rear wall, between the speakers.

Fr. An abuttal or abutment. See Guyot, R6pert Univ. "Ab-outissans."

In the act of; on the point of; signifying present action. See Ann. Cas. 1913A, 386.

any employe who is a member of the Union and is not more than sixty (60) days in arrears in the payment of membership dues.

Quoted before. A figurative expression taken from the ancient manner of writing books on scrolls, where whatever is mentioned or cited before in the same roll must be above. Encyc.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-grandfather's brother, (abavi frater.) Inst. 3, 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called patruus maximus. Id. 38, 10, 10, 17. Called, by Bracton and Fleto,

I. In old English law. To scrape off, i. e. to erase. Abrasnm: erased.

Lat. An old Latin word of frequent occurrence in Bracton, and constantly applied to the ancient proceeding by assise; usually translated by the modem word arraign; arramare having