ADMEASUREMENT
Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in definite and fixed proportions.
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Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in definite and fixed proportions.
To allow, receive, or take; to suffer one to enter; to give possession; to license. Gregory v. United States, 17 Blatchf. 325, 10 Fed. Cas. 1195. See ADMISSION.
Payment. Blount
A fine anciently imposed as a punishment for the commission of adultery.
Opposed; contrary; in resistance or opposition to a claim, application, or proceeding. As to adverse “Claim,” “Enjoyment,” “Possession,” “User,” “Verdict,” “Witness,” see those titles.
In the civil law. Advocates of the fiscs or revenue; fiscal advocates, (qui causam fisct egisscnt.) Cod. 2, 9, 1; Id. 2. 7, 13. Answering, in some measure, to the king’s counsel
To assess, liquidate, appraise, fix in amount.
To ratify, make firm, confirm, establish, reassert. To ratify or confirm a former law or judgment. Cowell. In the practice of appellate courts, to affirm a judgment, decree, or order, is to
In old English law. Plow cattle. bullocks or plow horses. A ffri, or afri carucw; beasts of the plow. Spelnian.
A revocable and voluntary trust for payment of debts. Wharton.
A speculation on the rise and fall of the public debt of states, or the public funds. The speculator is called “ag- iotcur.”
In old English law. Agreement; an agreement Spelman.
In English practice. A proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainder- man, when the
L. Fr. At the; to the. Allaire; at the bar. Al huis d’csglise; at the church- door.
Lat. In the civil law. A game of chance or hazard. Dig. 11, 5, 1. See Cod. 3, 43. The chance of gain or loss in a contract
The condition or state of an alien.
A person ought not to be judge in his own cause, because he cannot act as judge and party. Co. Litt. 141; 3 Bl. Comm. 59.
An allegation contrary to the deed (or fact) is not admissible.
Free; not holden of any lord or superior; owned without obligation of vassalage or fealty; the opposite of feudal. Barker v. Dayton, 28 Wis. 3S4; Wallace v. Ilarmstad, 44 Pa. 499.
In Saxon law. Alms-fee; alms-money. Otherwise called “Peterpence.” Cowell.