ALMESFEOH
In Saxon law. Alms-fee; alms-money. Otherwise called “Peterpence.” Cowell.
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In Saxon law. Alms-fee; alms-money. Otherwise called “Peterpence.” Cowell.
One or the other of two things; giving an option or choice; allowing a choice between two or more things or acts to be done.
Skillful with both hands; one who plays on both sides. Applied anciently to an attorney who took pay from both sides, and subsequently to a juror guilty of the same offense. Cowell.
In old English law. A penalty imposed upon a person by way of disgrace or infamy, as a punishment for any offense, or for the purpose of making reparation for any injury
Lat. In the civil and old English law. To lose. Hence the old Scotch “amitt.”
See AMI ; PROCIIEIN AMY.
A watch, consisting of a small number of men. (from one to four,) kept constantly on deck while the vessel is riding at single anchor, to see that the stoppers, painters, cables,
In Saxon law. The single value of a man or other thing: a single were- gild; the compensation of a thing according to its single value or estimation. Spelman. The double gild
The intention to take or capture. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 120, 155.
The intention of restoring. Fleta. lib. 3, c. 2.
A child a year old. Calvin.
Lat. In old English law. A ring; the ring of a door. Per haspam vel annulum hostii exterioris; by the hasp or ring of the outer door. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 15,
Annoyance; nuisance. Cowell; Kelharn.
The act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time. In conveyancing, anticipation is the act of assigning, charging, or otherwise dealing with income before it becomes due. In patent
In the civil law. A form of proving a will, by the witnesses acknowledging before a magistrate their having sealed it
L Fr. An addition; a marginal note or observation. Kelham.
In a sense not strictly technical, this word may be used to signify the exercise by a party of the right to remove a litigation from one forum to another; as where
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.