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AGRARIAN

Relating to land, or to a division or distribution of land; as an agrarian law.

AHTEID

In old European law. A kind of oath among the Bavarians. Spelman. In Saxou law. One bound by oath, q. d. “oath- tied.” From atli, oath, and tied. Id.

ALCABALA

In Spanish law. A duty of a certain i>er cent, paid to the treasury on the sale or exchange of property.

ALIAS WRIT

An alias writ is a second writ issued in the same cause, where a former writ of the Bame kind had been issued without effect In such case, the language of the

ALIMONY

The allowance made to a wife out of her husband’s estate for her support, either during a matrimonial suit, or at its termination, when she proves herself entitled to a separate maintenance,

ALLOCATIONE FACIENDA

In old English practice. A writ for allowing to an accountant such sums of money as he hath lawfully expended in his oilice; directed to the lord treasurer and barons of the

ALLOYNOUR

L. Fr. One who conceals, steals, or carries off a thing privately. Britt. c. 17.

ALTER

To make a change in; to modify; to vary in some degree; to change some of the elements or ingredients or details without substituting an entirely new tiling or destroying the identity

AMANUENSIS

One who writes on behalf of another that which lie dictates.

AMOUNT OF LOSS

In insurance. The diminution, destruction, or defeat of the value of, or of the charge upon, the insured subject to the assured, by the direct consequence of the operation of the risk

ANATHEMATIZE

To pronounce anathema upon; to pronounce accursed by ecclesiastical authority; to excommunicate.

ANDROLEPSY

The taking by one nation of the citizens or subjects of another, in order to compel the latter to do justice to the former. Wolllius,

ANIMO

Lat. With intention, disposition, design, will. Quo animo, with what intention. Animo cancellandi. with intention to cancel. 1 Pow. Dev. 003. Furandi, with intention to steal. 4 Bl. Comm. 230; 1 Kent.

ANNATES

In ecclesiastical law. First- fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, so called because the value of one year’s profit was taken as their rate.

ANNUALLY

The meaning of this term, us applied to interest, is not an undertaking to pay interest at the end of one year only, but to pay interest at the end of each

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