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It is the duty of justices to administer justice to every one pleading before them. 2 Inst. 451.

To satisfy. The emphatic words of the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, which requires the sheriff to take the person of the defendant to satisfy the plaintiff’s claim.

Corrupted from Adalat, justice, equity; a court of justice. The terms “Dewanny Adawlut” and “Foujdarry Adaw- lut” denote the civil and criminal courts of justice in India. Wharton.

In criminal law. Adequate cause for the passion which reduces a homicide committed under its influence from the grade of murder to manslaughter, means such cause as would commonly produce a degree

An adjournment is to appoint a day or give a day. 4 Inst. 27. Hence the formula “cat sine die.”

In English law. A writ which lies between those that have common of pasture appendant, or by vicinage, in cases where any one or more of them surcharges the common with more

A writ for associating certain persons, as knights and other gentlemen of the county, to justices of assize on the circuit Reg. Orig 200.

In old European law. To undertake, declare, or promise solemnly; to pledge; to pledge one’s self to make oath. Spelman.

Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a person other than the offender’s husband or wife. Civil Code Cal.

View; opinion; the counsel given by lawyers to their clients; an opinion expressed as to wisdom of future conduct The instruction usually given by one merchant or banker to another by letter,

In old English law. An adulterer. Beaty v. Richardson, 50 S. C. 173, 34 S. E 73, 40 L. R. A. 517.

L Fr. To let to farm. Also to make sure, to establish or confirm. Kelhain.

A person who testifies on affirmation, or who affirms instead of taking an oath. See AFFIRMATION. Used in affidavits and depositions which are affirmed, instead of sworn to in place of the

In criminal law. Deliberate; planned; premeditated; prepense State v. Peo, 9 Houst (Del.) 488, 33 BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

In medical jurisprudence. Impotentia generandi; sexual impotence; incapacity for reproduction, existing in either sex, and whether arising from structural or other causes.

The drift or numbering of cattle in the forest.

In French law. A solicitor practising solely in the tribunals of commerce.

In feudal law, originally mere benevolences granted by a tenant to his lord, in times of distress; but at length the lords claimed them as of right They were principally three: (1)

A manager and keeper of dogs for the sport of hawking; from alanus, a dog known to the ancients. A falconer. Blount.

L. Fr. In old practice. To be dismissed from court; to go quit Literally, “to go to God.”