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The crime is statutory, and consists generally in inducing an unmarried female of previous chaste character to submit to sexual intercourse by promise of marriage, or, in some stat

considering whether the conflicted trustee "is "acting "from an improper motive" so as to "further some interest of his own or of a person other than the beneficiary." "Id., "§ 187

the description last antecedent, that is, in the county where the lands lie.

These words contrast the relative position of two persons, with a tacit reference to a different relationship between one of them and a third person. For instance, the temporary ba

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

The term “asbestos” means asbestiform varieties of— (A) chrysotile (serpentine), (B) crocidolite (riebeckite), (C) amosite (cummingtonite-grunerite), (D) anthophyllite, (E) tremoli

The term “asbestos-containing material” means any material which contains more than 1 percent asbestos by weight.

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

I. fr. To certify or make known.

To go np; to pass up or upwards ; to go or pass in the ascending line. 4 Kent, Com 393, 397.

An ancestor from whom one is descended.

Those from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be. See Consanguinity. Every one has two ascendants at the first degree, his fathe

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

In Spanish law. Ascendants; ascending heirs; heirs in the ascending line. White, New Recop. bk. 1, tit. 7, c. 3, note; Schmidt, Civ. Law, 259.

Passage upwards; the transmission of an estate from the ancostor to the heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent, Co.min. 393, 307.

Passage upwards; the passing of an ascending line.

To make certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt or chance; to make sure of; fix; to determine. 246 III. 229. To make sure or certain; fix; to establish; to determine; to

Knowing.

The term “ASC proportion” means 25 percent for cost reporting periods beginning in fiscal year 1988, 50 percent for portions of cost reporting periods beginning on or after October

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

In Roman law, naturalized foreigners.

One enrolled; foreigners who have been enrolled. Among the Romans, ascriptitii were foreigners who had been naturalized, and who had in general the same rights as natives. Nov. 22,

I. Enrolled; registered, v. Adscriptus.

Lat. A secretary; one having charge of private matters, or secrets of state. A name anciently given to a chancellor. Hincmar, Epist. 3, c. 16; Spelman, Voc. Cancellarius.

the term “as expeditiously as possible” means that the Administrator shall, to the greatest extent practicable, complete a review and evaluation of all data, submitted with a compl

the term “as expeditiously as practicable” means as expeditiously as practicable but in no event later than five years after the date of approval of a plan revision under this sect

The term "asexually reproduced" means produced by a method of plant propagation using vegetative material (other than seed) from a single parent, including cuttings, graf

The term "Ashanti Alert" means an alert issued through the Ashanti Alert communications network, related to a missing adult.

The term “Ashanti Alert communications network” means the national communications network established by the Attorney General under section 21902(a) of this title .

The term “Ashanti Alert Coordinator of the Department of Justice” or “Coordinator” means the employee designated by the Attorney General to act as the national coordinator of the A

The term "Ashanti Alert plan" means a local element of the Ashanti Alert communications network.

The term “ASHRAE” means the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers. / The term “ASHRAE” means the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, an

The term “Asian American” has the meaning given the term “Asian” in the Office of Management and Budget's Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race

The term “Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution” has the meaning given the term in section 1059g of title 20. / The term “Asian American and Nativ

as in similar cases from other courts.

in our judgment the normal or usual flow of the river from year to year.

The term “ASME” means the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

A statute providing that procedure in a named case shall conform "as near as may be" to those in another named case does not mean "as near as may be possible," or "as near as may b

the 'as nearly as practicable' standard requires that the State make a good-faith effort to achieve precise mathematical equality. The command of Art. I § 2, that States create con

The term “as necessary to effect, administer, or enforce the transaction” means— (A) the disclosure is required, or is a usual, appropriate, or acceptable method, to carry out the

Ift practice and pleading. A term applied to proceedings, and to rights or estates, expressive of sameness of 'legal character, effect or operation; given in the way of relation, (

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

View of possibility. A pleading "with a double aspect" is one based on alternative hypotheses of fact.

A remainder is said to be “in a contingency with double aspect,” when there is another remainder limited on the same estate, not in derogation of the first, but asa substitute for

In medical jurisprudence. A temporary suspension of the motion of the heart and arteries; swooning; fainting.

To carry away.

Carrying away. A common-law ingredient of larceny. "There must be such a caption that the accused acquires dominion over the property, followed by such an asportation or carrying a

I. L In old English law. One goods.

He carried away. See "Asportation."

§1610 as a whole and contend that Congress more likely was referencing a specific provision within §1610 or a section in the NDAA.

American State Reports.

Abbreviation for Assize.

or ASSATH. In old Welsh law. of clearing one accused of homicide by the oaths of three hundred persons. The origin and exact meaning of the term is uncertain, and Mr. Barrington co

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

Lat. To assault. Spelnian. See Adsallire.

Lat. An assault. LL. Edw. Conf. c. 12. Spelman. Assultus is the Latin of the feudists. Zasius de Feudis, no. 38. Cowell. Insultus is the more common term.

or ESSART. In English forest and ecclesiastical law. The offense of pulling up by the roots the woods that are thickets and coverts for the deer, and making them clear as arable la

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

To assart.

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

Rents paid to the Crown for assailed lands. New Diet.

Essartum, Exartum. L. Lat. Assart; land cleared of its wood and converted to tillage. Assartum est quod redactum est ad culturam. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 21. Boscus efficitur assartum; a

crim. law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place, or of a number of persons who support him, and kills him. This being

The terms "assassinated" and "assassination" mean the killing of a judge or special trial judge that is motivated by the performance by the judge or special tri

The terms "assassinated" and "assassination" mean the killing of a judge or special trial judge that is motivated by the performance by the judge or special tri

or ASSAITH, See "Assach."

an assault is ordinarily held to be committed merely by putting another in apprehension of harm whether or not the actor actually intends to inflict or is capable of inflicting tha

The term "assault of Tribal justice personnel" means any violation of the criminal law of the Indian tribe that has jurisdiction over the Indian country where the violati

Assault on a transit worker.—The term "assault on a transit worker" means a circumstance in which an individual knowingly, without lawful authority or permission, and wit

an offense that has as its elements engaging in physical contact with another person or using or brandishing a weapon against another person with intent to commit aggravated sexual

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.

The proof or trial of the purity or fineness of metals, particularly the precious metals, gold and silver,

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

One whose business it is to make assays of the precious metals. —Assayer of the king. An officer of the royal mint, appointed by St. 2 Hen. VI. c. 12, wbo received and tested the b

An officer of the royal mint, appointed by St. 2 Hen. VI. c. 12, wbo received and tested the bullion taken in for coining; also called "assayator regis." Cowell ; Termes de la Ley.

the use of any test at all, whether patented or not patented, that determines whether a body fluid has an "elevated level of total homocysteine." And at trial, the inventors testif

An establishment, or department, in which the manipulations at tending the assay of bullion and coins are conducted. See "Assay." c. 12, who received and tested the bullion taken i

The staif of persons by whom {or the building in which) the process of assaying gold and silver, required by government, incidental to maintaining the edinage, is conducted.

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

To make secure.

Assecuration.

In European law. Assurance; insurance of a vessel, freight, or cargo. Opposition to the decree of Grenoble. Ferriere.

An insurer.

In Scotch law. An old term, used indiscriminately to signify a lease or feu-right. Bell, Diet.; Ersk. Inst, lib. 2, tit. 6, § 20.

The supreme ecclesiastical court in Scotland.

The term “assemblies” means items forming a portion of a system or subsystem that can be provisioned and replaced as an entity and which incorporates multiple, replaceable parts. /

The meeting of a number of persons in the same place. Political Assemblies. Those required by the constitution and laws. For example, the general assembly, which includes the senat

unlatful, in criminal law, the meeting of three or more persons to do an unlawful act, although they may not carry their from a riot or rout (q. v.) because in each of the latter c

The highest Scotch ecclesiastical court.

See Unlawful assembly .

Approval of something done. An undertaking to do something in compliance with a request. In* strictness, "assent" is to be distinguished from "consent," which denotes a willingness

the law has prescribed no particular form by which the assent of the executor shall be given, and it may be, therefore, either express or implied. It may be inferred from indirect

At most the Taurus obligated herself to hold her course and speed so far as practicable, to do nothing to thwart the overtaking vessel, and she knew of no circumstances not open to

To state as true; declare; maintain. To assert against another has probably a prima facie meaning of a contradiction of him, but the context or circumstances may show that it conno

See Assartare .

I, fr. Assart; cleared land.

One which asserts or warrants the existence of a particular state of facts.

One relating to a past or present fact or state of facts, as distinguished from a "promissory" oath which relates to future conduct; particularly, any oath required by law other th