ANDROGYNUS
An hermaphrodite.
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An hermaphrodite.
Wild animals, if they be made tame, and are accustomed to go out and return, fly away and fly back, as stags, swans, etc., are considered to belong to us so long
The intention to remain, or to delay.
In Scotch law. To alienate; to convey.
The net yearly income derivable from a given piece of property ; its fair rental value for one year, deducting costs and expenses; the value of its use for a year.
A yearly rent; annuity. 2 Bl. Comm. 41; Reg. Orig. 1586.
To date an instrument as of a time before the time it was written.
L. Fr. The Tear Books. Kelham.
In the civil law. An officer who took charge of the royal seal and signed royal dispatches.
In old practice. Appearance; an appearance. Appuritio in judicio, an appearance in court. Bract, fol. 344. Post apparitionem, after appearance. Fleta, Ub. G, c. 10,
Lat In the civil law. I appeal. The form of making an appeal apud acta. Dig. 49, 1, 2.
L. Fr. In old English law. Tax; tallage; tribute; imposition ; payment; charge; expenses. Kelham.
In Scotch law. To approve and reject; to take advantage of one part, and reject the rest Bell. Equity suffers no person to approbate and reprobate the same deed. 1 Kames, Eq.
Apt time sometimes depends upon lapse of time; as, where a thing is required to be done at the first term, or within a given time, it cannot be done afterwards. But
A civil law easement or servitude, consisting in the right of one whose house is surrounded with other buildings to cast waste water upon the adjacent roofs or yards. Similar to the
That punishment which is left to the decision of the judge, in distinction from those defined by statute.
In English ecclesiastical law. The chief of the clergy in his province, having supreme power under the king or queen in all ecclesiastical causes.
Lat. To rent; to let out at a certain rent. Cowell. Arcntatio. A renting.
An argument from division [of the subject] is of the greatest force in law. Co. Litt. 2136; 6 Coke, 60.
Sharp weapons that cut, in contradistinction to such as are blunt, which only break or bruise. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 33, par. 6.