ASSISE OF THE FOREST
A statute touching orders to be observed in the king’s forests. Manwood, 35.
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A statute touching orders to be observed in the king’s forests. Manwood, 35.
An action by a lender against a borrower, the principal object of which is to obtain a restitution of the thing lent. Poth. Pret a Usage, nn. 05, 68.
A real action. The proper term in the civil law was rci vindieatio. Inst. 4, 0. 3.
L. Lat. (From actio, an action.) In old records. To bring an action ; to prosecute, or sue. Thorn’s Chron.; Whis- haw.
Real; substantial; existing presently in act having a valid objective existence as opposed to that which is merely theoretical or possible. Something real, in opposition to constructive or speculative; something existing in
An act does not make [the doer of it] guilty, unless the mind be guilty; that is, unless the intention be criminal. 3 Inst. 107. The intent and the act must both
To render an account. St. Westm. 2, c. 11.
TO the middle of the way; to the central line of the road. Parker v. Inhabitants of Framingham, 8 Mete. (Mass.) 260.
To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king’s clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king’s
On complaint of.
Suspicion lies heavy on the unfortunate side.
In the law of contracts. Additional terms or propositions to be added to a former agreement.
In the civil law. To apply; to employ; to exercise; to use. Adhi- bcre diligcntiam, to use care. Adhihcre vim, to employ force.
To settle in the exercise of judicial authority. To determine finally. Synonymous with adjudge in its strictest sense. United States v. Irwin, 127 U. S. 125, 8 Sup. Ct. 1033, 32 L.
To give adminicular evidence.
The son of a great-great- grandson. Calvin.
Slaves who served the master of the soil, who were annexed to the land, and passed with it when it was conveyed. Calvin. In Scotland, as late as the reign of George
In Roman law. One of foreign birth, who lias left his own country and settled elsewhere, and who has not acquired citizenship in his new locality; often called albanus. Du Cange.
One who assists, defends, or pleads for another; one who renders legal advice and aid and pleads the cause of another before a court. A person learned In the law, and duly
In Saxon law. The estimation or valuation of the head; the price or value of a man. By the laws of Athelstan, the life of every man not excepting tlrat of the