Category: A

In English. A term formerly used in pleading when a thing is described both in Latin and English, inserted immediately after the Latin and as an introduction of the English translation.

The intention of defaming. The phrase expresses the malicious intent which is essential in every ease of verbal injury to render it the subject of an action for libel or slander.

The intention to revoke.

An annual day, in old ecclesiastical law, set apart in memory of a deceased person. Also called “year day” or “mind day.” Spelman.

Lat. In civil and old English law. A year; the period of three hundred and sixty-live days. Dig. 40, 7, 4, 5; Calvin.; Bract, fol. 3596.

In pleading. Any pleading setting up matters of fact by way of defense. In chancery pleading, the term denotes a defense in writing, made by a defendant to the allegations contained in

A copy or counterpart of a deed.

The summit of the law; a legal subtlety; a nice or cunning point of law; close technicality; a rule of law carried to an extreme point, either of severity or refinement.

In the civil law. Certificates of the inferior judge from whom a cause is removed, directed to the superior. Dig. 49, 6. See APOSTLES.

In practice. A coming into court as party to a suit, whether as plaintiff or defendant The formal proceeding by which a defendant submits himself to the jurisdiction of the court. Flint

When a constitution or court declares that the common law is In force in a particular state so far as it is applicable, it is meant that it must be applicable to

To take hold of, whether with the mind, and so to conceive, believe, fear, dread, (Trogdon v. State, 133 Ind. I, 32 N. E. 725;) or actually and bodily, and so to

L. Fr. To approve or prove; to vouch. Kelham.

Spring water. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27,

The plowing of land by the tenant, or vassal, in the service of his lord. Whishaw.

An award is the judgment of a good man, according to justice. 3 Bulst. 04.

Lat. In strict and safe custody or keeping. When a defendant is arrested on a capias ad satisfaciend u i/i, (ca. &’&.,) he is to be kept arcta et salva custodi. 3

Silver; money.

An edict of the ancient kings of France and Germany, commanding all their vassals, the noblesse, and the vassals’ vassals, to enter the army, or forfeit their estates on refusal. Spelman.

In English law. A device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms,