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In European law. Assurance; insurance of a vessel, freight, or cargo. Ferriere

To assure, or make se-* cure by pledges, or any solemn interposition of faith. Cowell; Spelman

one whose business lt is to make assays of the precious metals. ?

An unlawful attempt or of-fer, on the part of one man, with force or violence, to inflict a bodily hurt upon an-other

An ancient custom In wells, by which a person accused of crime could dear himself by the oaths of three hundred men. It wns abolished by St. 1 Hen. V. c

In English lnw. The offense committed in the forest, by pulling up the trees by tlie roots that are thickets and coverts for deer, and making the ground plain as arable land. It differs from waste, in that waste ls the cuttiug dowr of coverts which may grow again, whereas assart is

In old welsh law. An oath made by compurgators. Brown

The removal of things from one place to another. The carrying away of goods; one of the circumstances requisite to constitute the offense of larceny. 4 Bl. Comm. 231. wilson v. State, 21 Md. 1: State v. Higgins, 88 Mo. 354; Rex v. walsh, 1 Moody, Cr. Cas. 14, 15

In medical jurisprudence. A morbid condition of swooning, Buffoca-tion, or suspended animation, resulting in death if uot relieved, produced by any serl-ous interference with normal respiration (as, the inhalation of poisonous gases or too rarlfled air, choking, drowning, obstruction of the air passages, or paralysis of the respiratory muscles) with a consequent de-flclency of oxygen […]

In Roman law. A foreigner who had been registered and nat-uralized in the colony in which he resided. Cod. 11, 47

To fix; to render certaiu or definite; to estimate and determine; to clear of doubt or obscurity. Brown v. Lyd-dy, 11 Hun, 456; Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 21 Pac. 288, 3 L. R. A. 690; Pughe v. Coleman (Tex. Civ. App.) 44 S. W. 578

Passage upwards; the trans-mission of an estate from the ancestor to tbe heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent. Comm. 393, 397

In Spanish law. As-cendants; ascending heirs; heirs ln the as-cending line. Schm. Civil Law, 259

Persons with whom one is related in the ascending line; one’s parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc

To go up; to pass up or np-wards; to go or pass in the ascending line. 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397

These . words coutrast the relative position of two arsons. with a tacit reference to a different relationship between one of them and a third person. For instance, the temporary bailee of a chattel is entitled to it as between himself and a stranger, or as against a stranger; reference being made by this form […]

A feast or entertain-ment made at a funeral in the north of Eng-land; arvil bread is bread delivered to the poor at funeral solemnities, and arvil, arval, or arfal, the burial or funeral rites. Cowell

Created by art, or by law; existing only hy force of or in con-templation of law

(or more com-monly in articulo mortis.) In the article of death; at the point of death

Lat Articles; items or heads. A term applied to some old English statutes, and occasionally to treatises

Article by article; by distinct clauses or articles; hy separate propositions

In

1. A connected series of propositions; a system of rules. The subdi-visions of a document, code, book. etc. A specification of distinct matters agreed upou

In English law. A clerk bound to serve in the office of a solicitor in consideration of being instructed in the profession. This ls the general acceptation of the term; but it is said to be equal-ly applicable to other trades and professions. Reg. v. Reeve, 4 Q. B. 212

A separate and dlstlnct part of an instrument or writing comprising two oi more particulars; one of several things presented as connected or forming a whole. Carter v. Railroad Co., 126 N. C. 437, 36 S. E. 14; wetzell v. Dinsmore, 4 Daly (N. Y.) 195

ARDHEL, or ARDDELIO

In Scotch law. The offense committed by one who aids and assists the commission of a crime, hut who Is not the prlncipal or chief actor ln its actual commission. An accessary. A principal ln tbe second degree. Paters. Comp

words used in a technical sense; words scientifically fit to carry the sense assigned them

The trial of money by heating it after lt was coined

Arson, at common law, is the act of unlawfully and maliciously burning the house of another man. 4 Steph. Comm. 99; 2 Ituss. Crimes, 896; Steph. Crim. Dig. 298

Burning in the hand. The punishment by burning or branding the left thumb of lay offenders who claimed and were allowed the benefit of clergy, so as to distinguish them ln case they made a second claim of clergy. 5 Coke, 51; 4 Bl. Comm. 367

Store-houses for arms; dock-yards, magazines, and other military stores

Burnt and weighed. A term formerly applied to money tested or assayed by fire and by weighing

In France, one of the subdivisions of a department

In the civil law. The adoption of a person who was of full age or sui juris. 1 Browne, Civil & Adm. Law, 119; Dig. 1, 7, 5; Inst. 1, 11, 3. Relnders v. Kop-pelmann, 68 Mo. 497, 3^ Am. Rep. 802

T5 reach or come to a particular place of destination by traveling to-wards lt. Thompson v. United States, 1 Brock. 411, Fed. Cas. No. 407

In marine insurance. The arrival of a vessel means an arrival for pur-poses of business, requiring an entry aud clearance and stay at the port so long as to require some of the acts connected with busi-ness, and not merely touching at a port for advices, or to ascertain the state of the mar-ket, or […]

In feudal law. The vassal of a vassal

In feudal law. A sec-ond summons to Join the lord, addressed to those who had neglected the first. A summons of the inferiors or vassals of the lord. Spelman

In the civil law. Earnest; money given to bind a bargain. Calvin

In Scotch law. The person in whose hands the movables of another, or a debt due to another, are arrested by the

In oid English law. An arrest, (q. v

In old English law. A writ which issued for apprehending a person who had taken the king’s prest money to serve in the wars, and then hid himself in order to avoid goiug

In old English law. A writ which lay for a person whose cattle or goods were taken by another, who during a contest was likely to make away with them, aud who had not the ability to render satisfaction. Reg. orig. 126

In oriminal practice. The

In old English law. To let or demise at a fixed rent. Particularly used with reference to the public domain or crown lands; as where a license was granted to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent, or where an encroachment, originally a purpresture, was allowed […]

ln Spanish law. The contract of letting and hiring an estate or land, (beredad.) white, Recop. b. 2, tit. 14, c. 1

To accuse or charge with an offense. Arrectati, accused or suspected per-sons

In Spanish law. The donation which the husbnnd makes to his wife, by rea-son or on account of marriage, and in consideration of the dote, or portion, which he receives from her. Miller v. Dunn, 62 Mo. 219; Cutter v. waddiugham, 22 Mo. 254

In old French law. An officer employed to superintend the loading of vessels, and the safe stowage of the cargo. 1 Pet Adm. Append. XXV