日期：2008-03-07 AUCTOR . Among the Romans the seller was called auctor; and public, sales were made by fixing a spear in the forum, and a person who acted as crier stood by the spear the catalogue of the goods to be sold was made in tables called auctionariae. AUDI... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ATTORNMENT , estates. Was the agreement of the tenant to the grant of the seignory, or of a rent, or the agreement of the donee in tail, or tenant for life, or years, to a grant of a reversion or of a remainder made to another. Co. Litt. 309; Touchs... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ATTESTATION CLAUSE , wills and contracts. That clause wherein the witnesses certify that the instrument has been executed before them, and the manner of the execution of the same. The usual attestation clause to a will, is in the following formula,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ATTAINDER , English criminal law. Attinctura, the stain or corruption of blood which arises from being condemned for any crime. 2. Attainder by confession, is either by pleading guilty at the bar before the judges, and not putting one's self on one'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ATTACHMENT , remedies. A writ issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, commanding the sheriff or other proper officer to seize any property; credit, or right, belonging to the defendant, in whatever hands the same may be found, to satisfy the de... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ASSURANCE , com. law. Insurance. (q. v.) ASSURANCE , conveyancing. This is called a common assurance. But the term assurances includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ASSIZE OF MORT D' ANCESTOR . The name, of an ancient writ, now obsolete. It might have been sued out by one whose father, mother, brother, c., died seised of lands, and tonements, which they held in fee , and which, after their death, a stranger aba... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ASSEVERATION . The proof which a man gives of the truth of what be says, by appealing to his conscience as a witness. It differs from an oath in this, that by the latter he appeals to God as a witness of the truth of what he says, and invokes him as... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 TO ASSESS . 1. To rate or to fix the proportion which every person has to pay of any particular tax. 2. To assess damages is to ascertain what damages are due to the plaintiff; in actions founded on writings, in many cases after interlocutory judgme... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ASPORTATION . The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another. Vide Carrying away; Taking. ASSASSIN , crim, law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place) or... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARTICLES OF THE PEACE , Eng. practice. An instrument which is presented to a court of competent jurisdiction, in which the exhibitant shows the grievances under which be labors, and prays the protection of the court. It is made on oath. See a form i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT . An instrument which, in cases of impeachment, (q. v.) is used, and performs the same office which an indictment does, in a common criminal case, is known by this name. These articles do not usually pursue the strict form an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION . The compact which was made by the original thirteen states of the United States of America, bore the name of the Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between, the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARTICLES . A division in some books. In agreements and other writings, for the sake of perspicuity, the subjects are divided into parts, paragraphs, or articles. ARTICLES , chan. practice. An instrument in writing, filed by a party to a proceeding i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARSER IN LE MAIN . Burning in the hand. This punishment was inflicted on those who received the benefit of clergy. Terms de la Ley. ARSON , criminal law. At common law an offence of the degree of felony; and is defined by Lord Coke to be the malicio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARRESTMENT , Scotch law. By this term is sometimes meant the securing of a criminal's person till trial, or that of a debtor till he give security judicio sisti. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 1, 2, 12. It is also the order of a judge, by which he who isdebtor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARREST , in criminal cases. The apprehending or detaining of the person, in order to be forthcoming to answer an alleged or suspected crime. The word arrest is more properly used in civil cases, and apprehension in criminal. A man is arrested under... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARRAS , Span. law. The property contributed by the hushand, ad sustinenda onera matrimonii, is called arras. The hushand is under no obligation to give arras, but it is a donation purely voluntary. He is not permitted to give in arras more than a te... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARM OF THE SEA . Lord Coke defines an arm of the sea to be where the sea or tide flows or reflows. Constable's Case, 5 Co. 107. This term includes bays, roads, creeks, coves, ports, and rivers where the water flows and reflows, whether it be salt or... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-07 ARGENTUM ALBUM . White money; silver coin. See Alba Firma, ARGUMENT , practice. Cicero defines it ii probable reason proposed in order to induce belief. Ratio probabilis et idonea ad faciendam fidem. The logicians define it more scientifically to be... 阅读全文>>