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AGRICULTURE

The science or art of cultivating the ground, especially in fields or large areas, including the tillage of the soil, the planting of seeds, the raising and harvesting of crops, and the

AIR-WAY

In English law. A passage for the admission of air into a mine. To maliciously till up, obstruct, or damage, with intent to destroy, obstruct, or render useless the air-way to any

ALBUM BREVE

A blank writ; a writ with a blank or omission in it.

ALIAMENTA

A liberty of passage, open way, water-course, etc., for the tenant’s accommodation. Kitchin.

ALIENISM

The state, condition, or character of an alien. 2 Kent, Comm. 56, 64, 60.

ALL FAULTS

A sale of goods with “all faults” covers, in the absence of fraud on the part of the vendor, all such faults and defects as are not inconsistent with the identity of

ALLIANCE

The relation or union between persons or families contracted by intermarriage. In international law. A union or association of two or more states or nations, formed by league or treaty, for the

ALLOW

To grant, approve, or permit; as to allow an appeal or a marriage; to allow an account. Also to give a fit portion out of a larger property or fund. Thurman v.

ALTA PRODITIO

L. Lat. In old English law. High treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 75. See HIQII TREASON.

ALVEUS

The bed or channel through which the stream flows when it runs within its ordinary channel. Calvin. Alveus derelictus, a deserted channel. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

AMEUBLISSEMENT

In French law. A species of agreement which by a fiction gives to immovable goods the quality of movable. Merl. Repert; 1 Low. Can. 25, 58.

AMOUNT

The effect, substance, or result; the total or aggregate sum. Hilburn y. Railroad Co., 23 Mont 229. 58 Pac. 551; Connelly v. Telegraph Co., 100 Va. 51. 40 S. E. 618, 56

ANAFHROEISIA

In medical jurisprudence. Impotentia cceundi; frigidity; incapacity for sexual intercourse existing in either man or woman, and in the latter case sometimes called “dyspareunia.”

ANCILLARY BILL OR SUIT

One growing ort of and auxiliary to another action or sui*. either at law or in equity, such as a bill for discovery, or a proceeding for the enforcement of a judgment,

ANIMAL

Any animate being which is endowed with the power of voluntary motion. In the language of the law the term includes all living creatures not human. Domitw are those which have been

ANNA

In East Indian coinage, a piece of money, the sixteenth part of a rupee.

ANNUA PENSIONE

An ancient writ to provide the king’s chaplain, if he had no preferment, with a pension. Reg. Orig. 165, 307.

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