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To support, help, or assist. This word must be distinguished from its synonym “encourage,” the difference being that the former connotes active support and assistance, while the latter does not; and also

In French law. The document pursuant to which an action or suit is commenced, equivalent to the writ of summons in England. Actions, however, are in some cases commenced by requite or

The name of a judicial officer in Spain, and in those countries which have received their laws and institutions from Spain. His functions somewhat resembled those of mayor in small municipalities on

Lat. In criminal law. Elsewhere; in another place. A term used to express that mode of defense to a criminal prosecution, where the party accused, in order to prove that he could

The allowance made to a wife out of her husband’s estate for her support, either during a matrimonial suit, or at its termination, when she proves herself entitled to a separate maintenance,

One who alleges his own infamy is not to be heard. 4 Inst. 279.

In old English practice. A writ for allowing to an accountant such sums of money as he hath lawfully expended in his oilice; directed to the lord treasurer and barons of the

L. Fr. One who conceals, steals, or carries off a thing privately. Britt. c. 17.

To make a change in; to modify; to vary in some degree; to change some of the elements or ingredients or details without substituting an entirely new tiling or destroying the identity

One who writes on behalf of another that which lie dictates.

The will of a deceased person is ambulatory until the latest moment of life. Dig. 34, 4, 4.

In Louisiana law and practice. “There are two sorts of arbitrators,

In insurance. The diminution, destruction, or defeat of the value of, or of the charge upon, the insured subject to the assured, by the direct consequence of the operation of the risk

To pronounce anathema upon; to pronounce accursed by ecclesiastical authority; to excommunicate.

The taking by one nation of the citizens or subjects of another, in order to compel the latter to do justice to the former. Wolllius,

Lat. With intention, disposition, design, will. Quo animo, with what intention. Animo cancellandi. with intention to cancel. 1 Pow. Dev. 003. Furandi, with intention to steal. 4 Bl. Comm. 230; 1 Kent.

The intention of possessing.

In ecclesiastical law. First- fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, so called because the value of one year’s profit was taken as their rate.

The meaning of this term, us applied to interest, is not an undertaking to pay interest at the end of one year only, but to pay interest at the end of each

Irregular; exceptional; unusual; not conforming to rule, method, or type.