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An argument drawn from an impossibility is forcible in law. Co. Litt. 92a.

A vessel is “armed” when she is fitted with a full armament for fighting purposes. She may be equipped for warlike purposes, without being “armed.” By “armed” it is ordinarily meant that

The whole body of jurors summoned to attend a court, as they are arrayed, or arranged on the panel. Dane, Abr. Index; 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 5.1

Charged; charging. The convening a person charged with a crime before a judge. Staundef. P. C. 45. It is used sometimes for imputed or laid unto; as no folly may be arretted

Words used in a technical sense; words scientifically fit to carry the sense assigned them.

In Scotch law. Where the creditor holds several distinct debts, a separate adjudication for each claim is thus called.

The removal of things from one place to another. Hie carrying away of goods; one of the circumstances requisite to constitute the offense of larceny. 4 Bl. Comm. 231. Wilson v. State,

An affirmation ; a positive assertion; a solemn declaration. This word Is seldom, if ever, used for a declaration made under oath, but denotes a declaration accompanied with solemnity or an appeal

Lat He undertook; he promised. A promise or engagement by which one person assumes or undertakes to do some act or pay something to another. It may be either oral or in

The tackle or rigging of a ship; the harness or tackle of a plow. Spelman.

In feudal law. To transfer or turn over to another. Where a lord aliened his seigniory, he might with the consent of the tenant, and in some cases without attorn or transfer

A .Tit or commission to certain persons to appease and punish any insurrection or great riot. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 110.

In medical jurisprudence. A term used to designate the sensation of a cold vapor frequently experienced by epileptics before the loss of consciousness occurs in an epileptic fit. Aureutz v. Anderson, 3

Another action pending.

In old English and French. Property; substance, estate, and particularly live stock or cattle; hence a working beast; a horse or bullock.

The calling upon a warrantor of lands to fulfill his undertaking.

In logic. A self-evident truth; an indisputable truth.

Assise of mort (fancestor, which see.

An action adapted to the particular case, having an analogy to some actio in jus, the latter being founded on some subsisting acknowledged law. Spence, Eq. Jur. 212. The origin of these

In the civil and common law. A personal action. The ordinary term for this kind of action in the civil law is actio in personam, (q. v.,) the word personalis being of