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L. Fr. The Tear Books. Kelham.

In the civil law. An officer who took charge of the royal seal and signed royal dispatches.

In old practice. Appearance; an appearance. Appuritio in judicio, an appearance in court. Bract, fol. 344. Post apparitionem, after appearance. Fleta, Ub. G, c. 10,

Lat In the civil law. I appeal. The form of making an appeal apud acta. Dig. 49, 1, 2.

L. Fr. In old English law. Tax; tallage; tribute; imposition ; payment; charge; expenses. Kelham.

In Scotch law. To approve and reject; to take advantage of one part, and reject the rest Bell. Equity suffers no person to approbate and reprobate the same deed. 1 Kames, Eq.

Apt time sometimes depends upon lapse of time; as, where a thing is required to be done at the first term, or within a given time, it cannot be done afterwards. But

A civil law easement or servitude, consisting in the right of one whose house is surrounded with other buildings to cast waste water upon the adjacent roofs or yards. Similar to the

That punishment which is left to the decision of the judge, in distinction from those defined by statute.

In English ecclesiastical law. The chief of the clergy in his province, having supreme power under the king or queen in all ecclesiastical causes.

Lat. To rent; to let out at a certain rent. Cowell. Arcntatio. A renting.

An argument from division [of the subject] is of the greatest force in law. Co. Litt. 2136; 6 Coke, 60.

Sharp weapons that cut, in contradistinction to such as are blunt, which only break or bruise. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 33, par. 6.

In criminal practice. Calling the defendant to the bar of the court, to answer the accusation contained in the indictment.

In Scotch law. Securing a criminal’s person till trial, or that of a debtor till he give security juilicio sisti. The order of a judge, by which he who is debtor in

Burning in the hand. The punishment by burning or branding the left thumb of lay offenders who claimed and were allowed the benefit of clergy, so as to distinguish them in case

In Scotch law. The terms and conditions under which property is sold at auction.

To fix ; to render certain or definite; to estimate and determine; to clear of doubt or obscurity. Brown v. Lyd- dy, 11 Hun, 456; Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 21

One which affirms that a particular state of facts exists ; an affirming promise under seal.

TO help; aid; succor; lend countenance or encouragement to; participate in as an auxiliary. People v. Hayne, 83 Cal. Ill, 23 Fac. 1, 7 L. R. A. 348, 17 Am. St. Rep.