ASPORTATION
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,
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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,
In probate law. Property of n a decedent available for the payment of debts LI and legacies; the estate coming to the heir or personal representative which is chargeable, in law or
To absolve; acquit; to set free; to deliver from excommunication. St. 1 Hen. IV. c. 7; CoweU.
Hatred or ill-will. See DE ODIO ET ATIA.
In Scotch practice. A person who attests the sufficiency of a cautioner, and agrees to become subsidiarie liable for the debt. Bell.
In international law. A hearing; interview with the sovereign. The king or other chief executive of a country grants an audience to a foreign minister who conies to him duly accredited; and,
The sister of one’s father or mother, and a relation in the third degree, correlative to niece or nephew.
L. Fr. Another.
In pleading. To declare or assert; to set out distinctly and formally; to allege. In old pleading. To avouch or verify. Litt.
The name of a system of weights (sixteen ounces to the pound) used in weighing articles other than medicines, metals, and precious stones.
In old English statutes. A measure of wine, or vessel containing forty gallons.
1. To ascertain, adjust, and settle the respective shares to be contributed by several persons toward an object beneficial to them all, in proportion to the benefit received. 2. To adjust or
An obsolete writ, which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the land and rents of it.
The preliminary articles, forty-nine in number, upon which the Magna Charta was founded.
An honorary, or pnetorian action. Dig. 44, 7, 25, 35.
In English pleading. A name given to the distinctive clause in the plea to the further mainte nance of the action, introduced In plact of the plea puis darrein continuance; the averment
A plaintiff is not to be heard who has advanced anything against authority, (or against the rule.)
The act of God does injury to no one. 2 Bl. Comm. 122. A thing which is inevitable by the act of God, which no industry can avoid, nor policy prevent, will
To hear and determine. St. Westm. 2, cc. 29, 30.
For exchange; for compensation. Bract, fol. 126, 376.