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For repairing and keeping in suitable condition.

At will. Bract fol. 27a. Ad voluntatem domini, at the will of the lord.

Sufficient; proportionate; equally efficient

The word “adjoining,” in its etymological sense, means touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near to or adjacent And the same meaning has been given to it when used in statutes.

Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in definite and fixed proportions.

To allow, receive, or take; to suffer one to enter; to give possession; to license. Gregory v. United States, 17 Blatchf. 325, 10 Fed. Cas. 1195. See ADMISSION.

Payment. Blount

A fine anciently imposed as a punishment for the commission of adultery.

Opposed; contrary; in resistance or opposition to a claim, application, or proceeding. As to adverse “Claim,” “Enjoyment,” “Possession,” “User,” “Verdict,” “Witness,” see those titles.

In the civil law. Advocates of the fiscs or revenue; fiscal advocates, (qui causam fisct egisscnt.) Cod. 2, 9, 1; Id. 2. 7, 13. Answering, in some measure, to the king’s counsel

To assess, liquidate, appraise, fix in amount.

To ratify, make firm, confirm, establish, reassert. To ratify or confirm a former law or judgment. Cowell. In the practice of appellate courts, to affirm a judgment, decree, or order, is to

In old English law. Plow cattle. bullocks or plow horses. A ffri, or afri carucw; beasts of the plow. Spelnian.

A revocable and voluntary trust for payment of debts. Wharton.

A speculation on the rise and fall of the public debt of states, or the public funds. The speculator is called “ag- iotcur.”

In old English law. Agreement; an agreement Spelman.

In English practice. A proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainder- man, when the

L. Fr. At the; to the. Allaire; at the bar. Al huis d’csglise; at the church- door.

Lat. In the civil law. A game of chance or hazard. Dig. 11, 5, 1. See Cod. 3, 43. The chance of gain or loss in a contract

The condition or state of an alien.