ADVENTURE, BILL OF
In mercantile law. A writing signed by a merchant, stating that the property in goods shipped in his name belongs to another, to the adventure or chance of which the person so
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In mercantile law. A writing signed by a merchant, stating that the property in goods shipped in his name belongs to another, to the adventure or chance of which the person so
A writ which lay for tithes, demanding the fourth part or upwards, that belonged to any church.
Your disposition (6r intention) gives name (or character) to your work or act. Bract, fol. 26. 1016.
A refining of metals. Blount
To liberate; to make free.
L. Fr. To award, adjudge, or determine; to sentence, or condemn.
Having suffered loss or injury; damnified; Injured.
In the law of descents. Relations by the father. This word is used in the Scotch law, and by some writers as an English word, corresponding with the Latin agnati, (q. v.)
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,