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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Capacity of legal man, after seven he sciously guilty; after twelve, he take defendant has good ground of defence. Af Bfealty. ' It belongs, it behooves. Affiletur: let it be filed. of determining a man to be the father of he is forced to maintain it. by marriage. Affinis mei afi Snis non est related by marriage to one related to me by to me.

— Relation by marriage. affirms; used in place of deponent (one no oath is taken. incumbit probatio. The proof lies not the one denying. To affirm; confirm; ratify; assert; evidence not under oath. Affirmance: voidable act or contract by the party who is given without oath. To af Force;

— to add;

— to increase;

— to the assize: to obtain a verdict by addtwelve of the jury agreed;

— or, later, by food and drink. To make land into a forest; v. Forest. affranchise;

— to make free. between two or more persons, to the terror be a blow or stroke given or offered, or a must be in a public place, thus differing from unpremeditated, thus differing from a riot.

Affreightment

The contract for the use crop of grass; the right to such crop. wait. Gistenagait: he lies in wait. Agarder: to award, to condemn. action depends partly on age. Thus, of a may be capitally punished if proved confourteen, youth is no defence; after the oath of allegiance after fourteen, he property; at twenty-one, he is of full age for all purposes. So a woman is dowable at nine; may consent to marriage, or make a will of personal property, at twelve; is of full age at twenty-one. These periods vary in civil and statute law. Age prier,/r..

Age-prayer.

A suggestion of non-age, made in a real action to which an infant is a party, with a request that the proceedings be stayed until the infant comes of age. This was called the plea of parol demurrer.