ADOPTION
The act of one who takes another’s child into his own family, treating him as his own, and giving him all the rights and duties of his own child. A juridical act
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The act of one who takes another’s child into his own family, treating him as his own, and giving him all the rights and duties of his own child. A juridical act
Lat. One who corrupts; one who seduces another man’s wife. Adulter solidorum. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter. Calvin.
An adventure. 2 Mon. Angl. 615; Townsh. PI. 50. Flotson, jet- son, and lagon are styled adventures maris (adventures of the sea.) Ilale, De Jure Mar. pt. 1, c. 7.
Counselling, suggesting, or advising, but not imperative. A verdict on an issue out of chancery is advisory. Watt v. Starke, 101 U. S. 252, 25 L. Ed. S26.
In old English law. An adulterer. Beaty v. Richardson, 50 S. C. 173, 34 S. E 73, 40 L. R. A. 517.
The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Crabb, Technol. Diet.
An affidavit intended to certify the service of a writ, notice, or other document.
In practice. A solemn and formal declaration or asseveration that an affidavit is true, that the witness will tell the truth, etc., this being substituted for an oath in certain cases.
To liberate; to make free.
When the act complained of is prohibited by a statute. these technical words must be used in an indictment under it. The Latin phrase is contra formam statuti. State v. Murphy. 15
Lat. In the civil law. A dam, bank or mound. Cod. 9, 3S; Townsh. PI. 4S.
[From agnati, q. v.] Derived from or through males. 2 Bl. Comm. 230.
Settled or established by agreement. This word in a deed creates a covenant. This word is a technical term, and it is synonymous with “contracted,” McKisick v. McKisick, Meigs (Tenn.) 433. It
In English practice. A proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainder- man, when the
L. Fr. At the; to the. Allaire; at the bar. Al huis d’csglise; at the church- door.
Alderman of a city or borough, from which the modern oilice of alderman has been derived. T. liaym. 435, 437.
Span. In Spanish law. Property. White, Nov. Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 3.
in quorum favorem prohibits est, potest fieri, et quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introdncto. Although alienation be prohibited, yet. by the consent of all in whose favor it is prohibited, it
Lat Otherwise. A term often used in the reports. Aliud est celare, aliud tacere. To conceal Is one thing; to be silent is another thing. Lord Mansfield, 3 Burr. 1910.
The assertion, declaration, or statement of a party to an action, made in a pleading, setting out what he expects to prove. A material allegation in a pleading is one essential to