日期：2008-03-06 AMBULATORIA VOLUNTAS . A phrase used to designate that a man has the power to alter his will or testament as long as he lives. This form of phrase frequently occurs in writers on the civil law; as ambulatoria res, ambulatoria actio, potestas, condit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AMBASSADOR , interaational law. A public minister sent abroad by some sovereign state or prince, with a legal commission and authority to transact business on behalf of his country with the government to which he is sent. He is a minister of the hig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALTERATION . An act done upon an instrument in writing by a party entitled under it, without the consent of the other party, by which its meaning or language is changed; it imports some fraud or design on the part of him who made it. This differs fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALLUVION . The insensible increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river by the force of the water, as by a current or by waves. It is a part of the definition that the addition, should be so gradual that no one can judge how much is added at e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALLOCATION , Eng. law. An allowance upon account in the Exchequer; or rather, placing or adding to a thing. Eucy. Lond. ALLOCATIONE FACIENDA . Eng. law. A writ commanding that an allowance be made to an accountant, for such moneys as he has lawfully... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALLEGIANCE . The tie which binds the citizen to the government, in return for the protection which the government affords him. 2. It is natural, acquired, or local. Natural allegiance is such as is due from all men born within the United States; acq... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALITER , otherwise. This term is frequently used to point out a difference between two decisions; as, a point of law has been decided in a particular way, in such a case, aliter in another case. ALIUNDE . From another place; evidence given aliunde,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALIENATION , med. jur. The term alienation or mental alienation is a generic expression to express the different kinds of aberrations of the human understandiug. Dict. des Science Med. h. t.; 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 535. ALIENATION OFFICE , Engligh law.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALIEN , persons. One born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, who has not since been naturalized under their constitution and laws. To this there are some exceptions, as this children of the ministers of the United States in foreign courts... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALER SANS JOUR , or aller sans jour, in practice. A French phrase which means go without day; and is used to signify that the case has been finally dismissed the court, because there is no further day assigned for appearance. Kitch. 146. ALFET , obs... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ALBA FIRMA . Eng. law. When quit rents were reserved payable in silver or white money, they wero called white rents, or blanch farms reditus albi. When they were reserved payable in work, grain, or the like, they were called reditus nigri or black m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AJUTAGE . A conical tube, used in drawing water through an aperture, by the use of which the quantity of water drawn is much increased. When a privilege to draw water from a canal through the forebay or tunnel by means of in aperture has been grante... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AGRICULTURE . The art of cultivating the earth in order to obtain from it the divers things it can produce; and particularly what is useful to man, as grain, fruit's, cotton, flax, and other things. Domat, Dr. Pub. liv. tit. 14, s. 1, n. 1. AID AND... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AGISTMENT , contracts. The taking of another person's cattle into one's own ground to be fed, for a consideration to be paid by the owner. The person who receives the cattle is called an agister. 2. An agister is bound to ordinary diligence, and of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AGENT AND PATIENT . This phrase is used to indicate the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to wbom it is done; as, when a man is indebted to another, and he appoints him his executor, the latter is re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AGENT , practice. An agent is an attorney who transacts the business of another attorney. 2. The agent owes to his principal the unremitted exertions of his skil and ability, and that all his transactions in that character, shall be distinguished by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AGE-PRAYER, AGE-PRIER , oetatis precatio. English law, practise. Wnen an action is brought against an infant for lands which he hath by descent, he may show this to the court, and pray quod loquela remaneat until he shall become of age; which is cal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AFORETHOUGHT , crim. law. Premeditated, prepense; the length of time during which the accused has entertained the thought of committing the offence is not very material, provided he has in fact entertained such thought; he is thereby rendered crimin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AFFIRMATIVE PREGNANT , Pleading. An affirmative allegation, implying some negative, in favor of the adverse party, for example, if to an action of assumpsit, which is barred by the act of limitations of six years, the defendant pleads that be did no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AFFIRMANCE-DAY, GENERAL . In the English Court of Exchequer, is a day appointed by the judges of the common pleas, and barons of the exchequer, to be held a few days after the beginning of every term for the general affirmance or reversal of judgmen... 阅读全文>>