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AD STUDENDUM ET ORANDUM

For studying and praying; for the promotion of learning and religion. A phrase applied to colleges and universities. 1 Bl. Comm. 407; T. Raym. 101.

ADDICEREU LAT

In the civil law. To adjudge or condemn; to assign, allot, or deliver; to sell. In the Roman law, addico was one of the three words used to express the extent of

ADESSE

In the civil law. To be present; the opposite of abesse. Calvin.

ADJOURNMENT

A putting off or postponing of business or of a session until another time or place; the act of a court, legislative body, public meeting, or officer, by which the session or

ADMENSURATIO

In old English law. Admeasurement. Reg. Orig. 150, 157.

ADMONITION

In ecclesiastical law, this is the lightest form of punishment, consisting in a reprimand and warning administered by the judge to the defendant. If the latter does not obey the admonition, he

ADROGATION

In the civil law. The adoption of one who was impubes; that is, if a male, under fourteen years of age; if a female, under twelve. Dig. 1, 7, 17, 1.

ADVANCEMENT

Money or property given by a father to his child or presumptive heir, or expended by the former for the latter*s benefit, by way of anticipation of rlie share which the child

ADVISE

To give an opinion or counsel, or recommend a plan or course of action; also to give notice. Long v. State, 23 Neb. 33, 36 N. W. 310. This term is not

ADVOWSON

In English ecclesiastical law. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the right of presenting a fit person to the bishop, to be by him admitted and instituted to

AFFIANT

The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit. The word is used, in this sense, interchangeably with “deponent.” But the latter term should he reserved as the designation of one who makes

AFFIRMATIVE STATUTE

In legislation. A statute couched in affirmative or mandatory terms; one which directs the doing of an act, or declares what shall be done; as a negative statute is one which prohibits

AFTER-ACQUIRED

Acquired after a particular date or event. Thus, a judgment is a lien on after-acquired realty.

AGENT AND PATIENT

A phrase indicating the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is done.

AGISTMENT

The taking in of another person’s cattle to be fed, or to pasture, upon one’s own land, in consideration of an agreed price to be paid by the owner. Also the profit

AGREED ORDER

The only difference between an agreed order and one which is made in the due course of the proceedings in an action is that in the one case it is agreed to.

AIELESSE

A Norman French term signifying “grandmother.” Kelham.

ALBA FIRM A

In old English law. White rent; rent payable in silver or white money, as distinguished from that which was anciently paid in corn or provisions, called black mail, or black rent. Spelman;

ALEU

Fr. In French feudal law. An allodial estate, as distinguished from a feudal estate or benefice.

ALIENATION

In real property law. The transfer of the property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things, from one person to another. Terines de la Ley. It is particularly applied to absolute

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