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A system of rules prescribed by act of parliament for the government of the English navy; also, in the United States, there are articles for the government of the navy.

View; object; possibility. Implies the existence of alternatives. Used in the phrases “bill with a double aspect” and “contingency with a double aspect.”

The assessment fund of a mutual benefit association is the balance of the assessments, less expenses, out of which beneficiaries are paid. Kerr v. Ben. Ass’n, 39 Minn. 174. 39 N. W.

In the practice of the criminal courts of Scotland, the fifteen men who decide on the conviction or acquittal of an accused person are called the “assize,” though in popular language, and

The great-grandfather’s or great-grandmother’s grandfather; a fourth grandfather. The ascending line of lineal ancestry runs thus: Pater, Avus, Proarus, Ahavus, Atavus, Tritavus. The seventh gen eration in the ascending scale will be

In canon law. A making terms; a composition, as with creditors. 7 Low. Can. 272, 306.

Catching at words is unworthy of a judge. Hob. 343.

Where lands are given in alms to some church or religious house, upon condition that a service or prayers shall be offered at certain times for the repose of the donor’s soul.

The political independence of a nation; the right (and condition) of self-government.

A certain quantity of oats paid by a tenant to his landlord as rent, or in lieu of some other duties.

In Scotch law. To make avizandum with a process is to take it from the public court to the private consideration of the Judge. Bell.

The decision or determination rendered by arbitrators or commissioners, or other private or extrajudicial deciders, upon a controversy submitted to them ; also the writing or document embodying such decision. Halnon v.

Articles of the clergy, (q. v.)

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.

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,

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.

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

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

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.

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