ADDICTIO
In the Roman law. The giving up to a creditor of his debtor’s person by a magistrate; also the transfer of the debtor’s goods to one who assumes his liabilities.
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In the Roman law. The giving up to a creditor of his debtor’s person by a magistrate; also the transfer of the debtor’s goods to one who assumes his liabilities.
In the civil law. The welding together of iron; a species of adjunctio, (q. v.) Called also ferruminatio. Mackeld. Rom. Law,
The appointment of a day when the justices in eyre mean to sit again. Cowell; Spelman.
In old Italian law. Persons chosen by the consent of contending parties, to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman.
The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mortmain, in the feudal customs.
An abbreviation for ad. scetam, which means “at the suit of.” Bowen v. Sewing Mach. Co., 80 111. 1L
In old pleading. An advantage. Co. Ent. 4S4; Townsli. PI. 50.
Counselling, suggesting, or advising, but not imperative. A verdict on an issue out of chancery is advisory. Watt v. Starke, 101 U. S. 252, 25 L. Ed. S26.
Where the patron has the right to put his clerk in possession by his mere gift, or deed of donation, without any presentation to the bishop, or institution by him. 2 Bl.
A swearing of the oath of fidelity or of fealty to one’s lord, under whose protection the quasi-vassal has voluntarily come. Brown.
In the civil law. Affixed, fixed, or fastened to.
This term as used in a bill payable so many days after sight, means after legal sight: that is, after legal presentment for acceptance. ‘Hie mere fact of having seen the bill
Lat. In the civil law. A field ; land generally. A portion of land inclosed by definite boundaries. Municipality No. 2 v. Orleans Cotton Press. 18 La. 107, 36 Am. Dec. 624.
In the civil law. Relationship on the father’s side; agnation. Agnatio a patrc est. Inst 3, 5, 4; Id. 3, 6, 6.
Fr. In French marine law. The rigging or tackle of a vessel. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 2, art. 1; Id. tit 11, art 2; Id liv. 3, tit. 1, art. 1L
That fluid transparent substance which surrounds our globe. Bank v. Ken- nett 101 Mo. App. 370, 74 S. W. 474.
In old French law. A stranger, alien, or foreigner.
Probably a corruption of Laganum maris, lagan being a right, in the middle ages, like jetsam and flotsam, by which goods thrown from a vessel in distress became the property of the
Lat Of another kind. 3 P. Wins. 247.
Lat. From another source; from elsewhere; from outeide. Evidence aliunde (i. e., from without the will) may be received to explain an ambiguity in a will. 1 Greenl. Ev.