Law Dictionary

aperlny, I. fr. By itself; separately.

See Apertment. APATORES, Apatores, Gr. [from a, without, and pater, a father.] In the civil law. Persons without a father; spurious children; bastards, (quasi sine patre filii.) In

A part of a house occupied by a person, while the rest is occupied by another, or others. 7 Man. & G. 95; 6 Mod. 214_; Woodfall, Landl. & Ten. 178. As to what is not an apartment,

a corporation resulting from a reorganization and includes both corporations in the case of an acquisition by one corporation of at least a majority of the voting stock and at leas

An agreement or compart. Du Cange.

Fr. To perceive. Britt. c. 40.

I In the civil law. To open, as a will or codicil. In feudal law. To escheat or revert to the lord.

Open, unsealed writs.

Aperment, Apartement. L. Fr. Openly, plainly. Apertment escries; openly defamed. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 15.

An overt act.

A form of proving a will, in the civil law, by the witnesses acknowledging before a magistrate their having sealed it. 1 Williams, Ex'rs, 329. APEX JURIS (Lat. the summit of the of

Open.

The term “Apex” means the New York Bight Apex consisting of the ocean waters of the Atlantic Ocean westward of 73 degrees 30 minutes west longitude and northward of 40 degrees 10 m

A subtlety of the law.

In mining law. The mineral laws of the United States give to the locator of a mining claim on the public domain the whole of every vein the apex of which lies within his surface ex

The term “Apex site” means that site within the Apex at which the dumping of municipal sludge occurred before October 1, 1983.

An affidavit intended to certify the service of a writ, notice, or other document.

i The fighting of two or more persons in some public place to the terror of his majesty's subjects. ^ When persons come together without a premeditated design to disturb the peace,

Aiffreightment; a contract for the hire of a vessel. From the Fr, fret, which, according to Cowell, meant tons or tonnage.

An apprentice to the law; a law student; a counsellor below the degree of serjeant; a barrister. See Apprentice en la Lei.

A mental affliction whereby one loses comprehension of the sense of words and of familiar objects.

In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the power of articulate speech in consequence of morbid conditions of some of the vocal organs. It may be incomplete, in which case the patient ca

Legal niceties are not laws. Co. Litt. 304; 3 Scott, 773; 10 Coke, 126; Broom, Leg. Max. 142. See "Apex Juris." APICES LITIGANDI (Lat.) Subtleties of law; extreme technicalities. A

Extremities or mere subtleties of law, are not rules of law, [are not law.] Co. Litt 3046; 10 Coke, 126; Wing. Max. 19, max. 14; Broom, Max. 188.

The extremes of the law are not the law. See 6 L. R. A. (N. S.) 494.

Extremes of the law.

Persons taken by pirates or robbers remain free. Dig. 49, 15, 19, 2; Gro. de J. B. lib. 3, c. 3, § 1.

Title to the booty of pirates and robbers does not change. See 1 Kent’s Comm. 108, 184.

We obtain possession of a thing with both the mind and the body, not with the mind alone nor with the body alone.

In medical Jurisprudence. Want of breath; difficulty in breathing; partial or temporary suspension of respiration; specifically, such difficulty of respiration resulting from over-

I. fr. Appurtenances. Used by Britton as another name for incorporeal thinga v. Appurtenance.

A receipt for payment.

Lat In the civil law. A writing acknowledging payments; acquittance. It differs from acceptilation in this: that acceptilation imports a complete discharge of the former obligation

Bills of lading.

gr.-l. In the civil lavx Acknowledgment of a payment of money.

In the civil law. An officer who took charge of the royal seal and signed royal dispatches.

A messenger; an ambassador.

In the civil law. An officer who took charge of the royal seal and signed royal dispatches,

L In ecclesiastical law. One who answers for another; originally an officer who brought ecclesiastical matters before the emperor and conveyed his answer's to the petitioners; a po

I I In old English law. Bills of lading.

In civil law. An examination and enumeration of things possessed; an inventory. Calv. Lex.

In Civil Law. An examination and enumeration of things possessed; an inventory. Calvinus, Lex.

Fr. To appointor direct. Id.

I. fr. To appoint or direct

In Medical Jurisprudence. The group of symptoms arising from rupture of a minute artery and consequent hemorrhage into the substance of the brain or from the lodgment of a minute c

gr.-l To be in difl Sculties; to be poor; to reduce to poverty

The total renunciation of Christianity, by embracing either a false.religion, or no religion at all. This offense can only take place in such as have once professed Christianity. 4

I. U In the Saxon law. To violate; to transgress.

In civil and old English law. An apostate. Code, 1. 7; Reg. Orig. 71b.

An obsolete English writ which issued against an apostate, or one who had violated the rules of his religious order. It was addressed to the sheriff, and commanded him to deliver t

From a subsequent viewpoint.

I. Jr. To write notes on.

Appostille. L. Fr. An addition; a marginal note or observation. Kelham.

3 In English admiralty practice the copy of the record in an appealed case which is sent to the appellate tribunal.

Brief letters of dismissal granted to a party who takes an appeal from the decision of an English court of admiralty, stating the case, and declaring that the record will be transm

Iif civil law. Certificates of the inferior judge from whom a cause is removed, directed to the superior. Dig. 49. 6. See "Apostles." Those sent as messengers. Spelman.

A messenger; an ambassador, legate, or nuncio. Spelman.

In the civil law. A repository; a place of deposit, as of wine, oil, books, etc. Calv. Lex. APPARATOR (Law Lat.) One who furnishes or provides. A sheriff was formerly styled in Eng

I Stewards. The word is used in old records.

One who makes a business of compounding and selling drugs. See 72 Ky. 569.

The term “Appalachian region” means that area of the eastern United States consisting of the following counties (including any political subdivision located within the area): (A) I

I I In old French law. A provision for younger sons. V. Apanage.

I fr., Apparentia, apparitio, I I Appearance; an appearanca Apparitio in jndicio: an appearance in court

A process server of the ecclesiastical courts.

See Appendage; Process, 2.

external clothing, external habiliments or array, and a person's outer clothing.

L, Apparent Manifest; proved; appearing; that which is regularly before a court Apparent heir: in English law one whose right of inheritance is indefeasible, if he outlives the anc

That which appears; that which is manifest; what is proved. It is required that all things upon which a court must pass should be made to appear, if matter in pais, under oath; if

Where one, without objection, suffers another to do acts which proceed upon the ground of authority from him, or by his conduct adopts and sanctions such acts after they are done,

That degree of peril of death or great bodily harm which will justify the killing of an assailant in self-defense. The danger need not be real, but must be sufficient to cause a re

In a thing sold, those which can be discovered by simple inspection. Code La. art. 2497. APPARENT (or CONTINUOUS) EASEmerit. One depending on some artificial structure or natural f

those which can be discovered by simple inspection. Co.de La. art 2407. — Apparent easement . See Easement. — Apparent heir . In English law. One whose right of inheritance is inde

See Easement.

One whose right of inheritance is indefeasible, provided he outlive the ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 208. In Scotch Law. One who is entitled to enter heir to a deceased ancestor, before a

Lat. [from apparere, q. v.] In old practice. An appearance. Rast. Entr. 347. See Comparentia.

The term “apparently fit grocery product” means a grocery product that meets all quality and labeling standards imposed by Federal, State, and local laws and regulations even thoug

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “apparently wholesome food” has the meaning given to such term by section 22(b)(2) of the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act

Of a negotiable instrument. The time when, by its face, it will fall due. APPARITOR (Lat.). An officer or messenger employed to serve the process of the spiritual courts in England

To appear.

apares, 1. In the canon lau). Peers or compeers; equals; associates. \ In ecclesiastical law. A summoner; one who cites offenders to appear and serves the process of the court.

apparoer, apparoier, I fr. To appear; tO' make known.

An appearance.

See Apparator .

In old English law. Resemblance; likelihood, as apparlement of war. St. 2 Rich. II. St. 1, c. 6; Cowell. APPARURA (Lat.) In old English law. Furniture or implements. Carucariae app

Apparoer, Apparoier, L. Fr. To appear, to make known. Kelham*

Furniture; implements.

I fr. In old English law. Places which agreed to pay a sum of money to the enemy that the town might not be ravaged.

appay, apay, 1. fr. Satisfied; contented. AppeaL A complaint and removal of a cause to a higher court for error or informality, for the purpose of re-examination or review. In the

The court of last resort in the state of Mississippi.

as in England, with appeal from the latter to the House of Lords; and law and equity are concurrently administered. TV. American Courts. 103. Courts of the United States. They have

An appeal is not a new suit in the appellate court, but a continuation of the suit in the court below, a proceeding in the original cause, and the suit is pending until the appeal

[Fr. appel.] In old French law. A mode of proceeding in the lords' courts, where a party was dissatisfied with the judgment of the peers, which was by accusing them of having given

[L. Lat. appellum; L. Fr. appel, from appeller, to call upon, or challenge.] In old English criminal law. A proceeding in the nature of a criminal prosecution, being an accusation

the mere direction of the court to the witnesses to answer the questions put to them and to produce the written evidence in their possession is not a final decision; ... it more ap

The bond given on taking an appeal, by which the appellant binds himself to pay damages and costs if he fails to prosecute the appeal with effect. Omaha Hotel Co., v. Kountze, 107

In a sense not strictly technical, this word may be used bo signify the exercise by a party of the right to remove a litigation from one forum to another; as where he removes a sui

But the answer to the objection is, that the suit in the district court is to be regarded as an original proceeding; the removal of the transcript, papers, and evidence into it fro

As there was no action by the district court, except the entry of the mandate upon its records, the appeal brings before us only, that which was transmitted to the district court b

The majority of the court is clearly of opinion, that in admiralty cases an appeal suspends the sentence altogether; and that it is not res adjudicata until the final sentence of t