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Pertaining to or having cognizance of appeals and other proceedings for the judicial review of adjudications.

A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power is the person who is to receive the benefit of the power.

An apprentice to the law; a law student; a counsellor below the degree of serjeant; a barrister. See ArrRENTiCE EN LA LET.

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; something annexed to another thing more worthy as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way or

Water runs, and ought to run, as it has used to run. 3 Bulst. 339; 3 Kent, Comm. 439. A running stream should be left to flow in its natural channel, without

A just arbitration renders to every one his own. Noy, Max. 248.

State secrets. 1 Bl. Comm. 337.

In Spanish law. Sandy beaches; or grounds on the banks of rivers. White, Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6.

An argument arising from the inconvenience which the proposed construction of the law would create.

A portion of the sea projecting inland, in which the tide ebbs and flows. 5 Coke, 107. An arm of the sea is considered as extending as far into the interior of

A measurer or surveyor of land. Cowell; Spelman.

In old English law. A writ which issued for apprehending a person who had taken the king’s prest money to serve in the wars, and then hid himself in order to avoid

In France, one of the subdivisions of a department.

A formal written allegation of the causes for impeachment; answering the same office as an indictment in an ordinary criminal proceeding.

One skilled in some kind of mechanical craft or art; a skilled mechanic. O’Clair v. Hale, 25 Misc. Rep. 31, 54 N. Y. Supp. 386; Amazon Irr. Co. v. Briesen, 1 Kan.

The concourse or meeting together of a considerable number of persons at the same place. Also the persons so gathered. Popular assemblies are those where the people meet to deliberate upon their

An obsolete writ, which was directed to the judges assigned to take assises, to stay proceedings, by reason of a party to them being employed in the king’s business. Reg. Orig. 208.

1. A sanctuary, or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be taken without sacrilege. State v. Bacon, 6 Neb. 291; Cromie

In French law. The gain of a suit.

In feudal and old English law. A turning over or transfer by a lord of the services of his tenant to the grantee of his seigniory. Attornment is the act of a