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AVMILOAR

In Indian law. Agent; the holder of an office; an intendant and collector of the revenue, uniting civil, military, and financial powers under the Mohammedan government.

AUTOMATISM

In medical jurisprudence, this term is applied to actions or conduct of an individual apparently occurring without will, purpose, or reasoned intention on his part; a condition sometimes observed in persons who,

AVARIA, AVARIE

Average; the loss and damage suffered in the course of a navigation. Poth. Mar. Louage, 105.

AWARD, V

To grant, concede, adjudge to. Thus, a jury awards damages; the court awards an injunction. Starkey v. Minneapolis, 19 Minn. 206 (Gil. 166).

ASSISA DE MEN- SURIS

Assise of measures. A common rule for weights and measures, established throughout England by Richard I., in the eighth year of hia reign. Hale, Com. Law, c. 7.

AVOIDANCE

A making vald, or of no effect; annulling, cancelling; escaping or evading. In English ecclesiastical law. The term describes the condition of a benefice when it has no incumbent In parliamentary language,

ACTIO FAMILIES ERCISCUNDCE

An action for the partition of an inheritance. Inst. 4, 0, 20; Id. 4. 17. 4. Called, by Bracton and Fleta, a mixed action, and classed among actions arising ex quasi contractu.

ACTIO NON

In pleading. The Latin name of that part of a special plea which follows next after the statement of appearance and defense, and declares that the plaintiff “ought not to have or

ACTON BURNEL, STATUTE OF

In English law. A statute, otherwise called “Slatutum de ilcrcatoribus,” made at a parliament held at the castle of Acton Burnel in Shropshire, in the 11th year of the reign of Edward

ACTNS CURIAE NEMINEM GRAVABIT

An act of the court shall prejudice no man. Jenk. Cent. 118. Where a delay in an action is the act of the court, neither party shall suffer for it.

AD ALIUM DIEM

t another day. A common phrase in the old reports. Yearb. P. 7 Hen. VI. 13.

AD HOMINEM

To the person. A term used in logic with reference to a personal argument.

AD RATIONEM PONERE

A technical expression in the old records of the Exchequer, signifying, to put to the bar and interrogate as to a charge made; to arraign on a trial.

ADEMPTIO

Lat In the civil law. A revocation of a legacy; an ademption. Inst. 2, 21, pr. Where it was expressly transferred from one person to another, it was called translatio. Id. 2.

ADITUS

An approach ; a way; a public way. Co. Lltt. 50a.

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