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APPELLEE

The party in a cause against whom an appeal is taken; that is, the party who has an interest adverse to setting aside or reversing the judgment. Slayton v. Horsey, 97 Tex.

APPOINTOR

The person who appoints, or executes a power of appointment; as appointee is the person to whom or in whose favor an appointment is made. 1 Steph. Comm. 506, 507 ; 4

APPROACH

In international law. The right of a ship of war, upon the high sea, to visit another vessel for the purpose of ascertaining the nationality of the latter. 1 Kent, Comm. 153,

APROVECHAMIENTO

In Spanish law. Approvement, or improvement and enjoyment of public lands. As applied to pueblo lands, it has particular reference to the commons, and includes not only the actual enjoyment of them

AQUFFI HAUSTUS

In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the right to draw water from the fountain, pool, or spring of another. Inst. 2, 3, 2; Dig. 8, 3, 1, 1.

ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT

The difference between a free and an arbitrary government is that in the former limits are assigned to those to whom the administration is committed, but the latter depends on the will

ARCHAIONOMIA

A collection of Saxon laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the Saxon language, with a Latin version by Lambard.

ARRAIGN

In criminal practice. To bring a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer the matter charged upon him in the indictment. The arraignment of a prisoner consists of calling upon

ARRESTEE

In Scotch law. The person in whose hands the movables of another, or a debt due to another, are arrested by the creditor of the latter by the process of arrestment. 2

ARSENALS

Store-houses for arms; dock-yards, magazines, and other military stores.

ARTICLES OF RELIGION

In English ecclesiastical law. Commonly called the “Thirty- Nine Articles;” a body of divinity drawn up by the convocation in 1502. and confirmed by James I.

ASCENT

Passage upwards; the transmission of an estate from the ancestor to the heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397.

ASSENT

Compliance; approval of something done; a declaration of willingness to do something in compliance with a request. Norton v. Davis, 83 Tex. 32, 18 S. W. 430; Appeal of Pittsburgh, 115 Pa.

ASSISORS

In Scotch law. Jurors; the persons who formed that kind of court which in Scotland was called an “assise,” for the purpose of inquiring into and judging divers civil causes, such as

AT BAR

Before the court “The case at bar,” etc. Dyer, 31.

ATTENDANT

One who owes a duty or service to another, or in some sort depends upon him. Termes de la Ley. One who follows and waits upon another.

AUCTIONEER

A person authorized or licensed by law to sell lands or goods of other persons at public auction; one who sells at auction. Crandall v. State, 28 Ohio St. 481; Williams v.

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