日期：2008-03-06 AFFINITAS AFFINITATIS . That connexion between two persons which has neither consanguinity nor affinity; as, the connexion between the hushand's brother and the wife's sister. This connexion is formed not between the parties themselves, nor between... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADVOCATUS . A pleader, a narrator. Bract. 412 a, 372 b. ADVOWSON , ecclesiastical law. From advow or advocare, a right of presentation to a church or benefice. He who possesses this right is called the patron or advocate, (q. v.) when there is no pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADVICE , com. law. A letter containing information of any circumstances unknown to the person to whom it is written; when goods are forwarded by sea or land, the letter transmited to inform the consignee of the fact, is termed advice of goods, or le... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADVERSARY . One who is a party in a writ or action opposed to the other party. ADVERSE POSSESSION , title to lands. The enjoyment of land, or such estate as lies in grant, under such circumstances as indicate that such enjoyment has been commenced a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADVANCES , contracts. Said to take place when, a factor or agent pays to his principal , a sum of, money on the credit of goods belonging to the principal, which are placed, or are to be placed, in the possession of the factor or agent, in order to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADULTERIUM . In the old records this word does not signify the offence of adultery, but the fine imposed for its commission. Barr. on the Stat. 62, note. ADULTERY , criminal law. From ad and alter, another person; a criminal conversation, between a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADMONITION . A reprimamd from a judge to a person accused, on being discharged, warning him of the consequences of his conduct, and intimating to him, that should he be guilty of the same fault for which he has been admonished, he will be punished w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADMISSIONS , of attorneys and counsellors. To entitle counsellors and attorneys to practice in court, they must be admitted by the court to practice there. Different statutes and rules have been made to regulate their admission; they generally requi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADMISSIONS , in evidence. Concessions by a party of the existence of certain facts. The term admission is usually applied to civil transactions, and to matters of fact in criminal cases, where there is no criminal intent the term confession, (q. v.)... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADMINISTRATRIX . This term is applied to a woman to whom letters of administration have been granted. See Administrator. ADMIRAL , officer. In some countries is the commander in chief of the naval forces. This office does not exist in the United Sta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADMINISTRATION , trusts. The management of the estate of an intestate, a minor, a lunatic, an habitual drunkard, or other person who is incapable of managing his own affairs, entrusted to an administrator or other trustee by authority of law. In a m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADMEASUREMENT OF DOWER , remedies. This remedy is now nearly obsolete, even in England; the following account of it is given by Chief Baron Gilbert. The writ of admeasurement of dower lieth where the heir when he is within age, and endoweth the wife... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADJURATION . The act by which one person solemnly charges another to tell or swear to the truth. Wolff. Inst. 374. ADJUSTMENT , maritime law. The adjustment of a loss is the settlling and ascertaining the amount of the indemnity which the insured af... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADJUDICATIONS , Scotch law. Certain proceedings against debtors, by way of actions, before the court of sessions and are of two kinds, special and general. 2. 1. By statute 1672, c. 19, such part only of the debtor's lands is to be adjudged to the p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ADEMPTION , wills. A taking away or revocation of a legacy, by the testator. 2. It is either express or implied. It is the former when revoked in express terms by a codicil or later will; it is implied when by the acts of the testator it is manifest... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 AD VALOREM . According to the value. This Latin term is used in commerce in reference to certain duties, called ad valorem duties, which are levied on commodities at certain rates per centum on their value. See Duties; Imposts; Act of Cong. of March... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ACTUARIUS . An ancient name or appellation of a notary. ACTUARY . A clerk in some corporations vested with various powers. In the ecclesiastical law he is a clerk who registers the acts and constitutions of the convocation. ACTUS . A foot way and ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ACTIONARY . A commercial term used among foreigners, to signify stockholders. ACTIONES NOMINATAE . Formerly the English courts of chancery would make no writs when there was no precedent, and the cases for which there were precedents were called act... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ACTION AD EXHIBENDUM , civil law. This was an action instituted for the purpose of compelling the defendant to exhibit a thing or title, in his power. It was preparatory to another action, which was always a real action in the sense of the Roman law... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-06 ACTIO PRO SOCIO . In the civil law, is the name of an action by which either partner could compel his co-partners to perform their social contract. Poth. Contr. de Societe, n. 134. ACTION . Conduct, behaviour, something done. Nomen actionis latissim... 阅读全文>>