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Payment of money by weight instead of by count. Cowell.

In French law, an addition or annotation made in the margin of a writing. Merl. Repert

Notes indorsed by another person than the maker, for additional security.

Running water.

A plow-man; a farmer of arable laud.

The decision of an arbiter, or arbitrator; an award; a judgment.

L. Lat. In old European law. A chief or high chancellor, (summus cancellarius.) Spelman.

A money IKH’ter in the English exchequer, who carries the money from the lower to the upper exchequer to be examined and tested. Spelman.

An argument drawn from inconvenience is of the greatest weight [is forcible] in law. Co. Litt. 66a, 97a, 1526, 25S6; Broom, Max. 184. If there be in any deed or instrument equivocal

An ancient mode of punishment, which was to carry a saddle at the back as a token of subjection. Spelman.

To accuse or charge with an offense. Arrectati, accused or suspected persons.

In the civil law. Money or other valuable things given by the buyer to the seller, for the purpose of evidencing the contract; earnest.

To avouch; as if a man were taken with stolen goods in his possession he was allowed a lawful arthel, i. e., vouchee, to clear him of the felony; but provision was

Articles upon the charters. The title of a statute passed in the twenty-eighth year of Edward I. st. 3, confirming or enlarging many particulars in Magna dliarta, and the Charta de Foresta,

In English law. The offense committed in the forest, by pulling up the trees by the roots that are thickets and coverts for deer, and making the ground plain as arable land.

In contracts. 1. The act by which one person transfers to another, or causes to vest in that other, the whole of the right, interest, or property which he has in any

The act or agreement of assuming or taking upon one’s self; the undertaking or adoption of a debt or obligation primarily resting upon another, as where the purchaser of real estate “assumes”

In maritime law. A Spanish term signifying athwart, at right angles, or abeam; sometimes used as descriptive of the position of a vessel which is “lying to.” The Hugo (D. C.) 57

To turn over money or goods, i. e., to assign or appropriate them to some particular use or service.

As a verb; to make an official investigation and examination of accounts and vouchers. As a noun; the process of auditing accounts ; the hearing and investigation had before an auditor. People