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ARRAY

The whole body of jurors summoned to attend a court, as they are arrayed, or arranged on the panel. Dane, Abr. Index; 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 5.1

ARRETTED

Charged; charging. The convening a person charged with a crime before a judge. Staundef. P. C. 45. It is used sometimes for imputed or laid unto; as no folly may be arretted

ART, WORDS OF

Words used in a technical sense; words scientifically fit to carry the sense assigned them.

ARTICULATE ADJUDICATION

In Scotch law. Where the creditor holds several distinct debts, a separate adjudication for each claim is thus called.

ASPORTATION

The removal of things from one place to another. Hie carrying away of goods; one of the circumstances requisite to constitute the offense of larceny. 4 Bl. Comm. 231. Wilson v. State,

ASSETS

In probate law. Property of n a decedent available for the payment of debts LI and legacies; the estate coming to the heir or personal representative which is chargeable, in law or

ASSOIL

To absolve; acquit; to set free; to deliver from excommunication. St. 1 Hen. IV. c. 7; CoweU.

ATIA

Hatred or ill-will. See DE ODIO ET ATIA.

ATTESTOR OF A CAUTIONER

In Scotch practice. A person who attests the sufficiency of a cautioner, and agrees to become subsidiarie liable for the debt. Bell.

AUDIENCE

In international law. A hearing; interview with the sovereign. The king or other chief executive of a country grants an audience to a foreign minister who conies to him duly accredited; and,

AUNT

The sister of one’s father or mother, and a relation in the third degree, correlative to niece or nephew.

AVER, V

In pleading. To declare or assert; to set out distinctly and formally; to allege. In old pleading. To avouch or verify. Litt.

AVOIRDUPOIS

The name of a system of weights (sixteen ounces to the pound) used in weighing articles other than medicines, metals, and precious stones.

AWM

In old English statutes. A measure of wine, or vessel containing forty gallons.

ASSESS

1. To ascertain, adjust, and settle the respective shares to be contributed by several persons toward an object beneficial to them all, in proportion to the benefit received. 2. To adjust or

ASSISA DE UT- RNM

An obsolete writ, which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the land and rents of it.

ACTIO NON ULTERIUS

In English pleading. A name given to the distinctive clause in the plea to the further mainte nance of the action, introduced In plact of the plea puis darrein continuance; the averment

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