Avekrake

In feudal law. A duty required from some customary tenants, tocar-ry goods in a wagon or upon loaded horses

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Average

A medium, a mean proportion

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Averia

In old English law. This term was applied to working cattle, such as horses, oxen. etc

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Avenage

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

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Aver

L. Fr. To have

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Avanture

L. Fr. Chance; hazard

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Av Aria, Avarie

Average; the loss

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A Vails

Profits, or proceeds. This word seems to have been construed only in reference to wills, aud in them it means the corpus or proceeds of the estate after the payment of the debts. 1 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 1039. See Allen v. l)e Witt, 3 N. Y. 279; McNaughton v. McNaughton, 34 N. Y. 201

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Aval

In French law. The guaranty of a hill of exchauge; so called because usually placed at the foot or bottom (aval) of the blll. Story, Bills, $$ 394, 454

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Avail Of Marriage

In fendal law. The right of marriage, which the' lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony. A guardian in socage had also the same right, but not attended with the same advantage. 2 BL Comm. 88

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Available Means

This phrase, among mercantile men, is a term well un-derstood to be1 anything which can readily be converted into money; but it is not nec-essarily or primarily money itself. McFadden v. Leeka, 48. ohio St 513, 28 N. E. 874

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Auxiliary

Aiding; attendant on; ancillary, (q. v.) As an auxiliary bill in equity, an auxiliary receiver. See Buckley v. Harrison, 10 Misc. Rep. 683, 31 N. Y. Supp. 1001

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Auxilium

In feudal and old English law. Aid; compulsory aid, hence a tax or tribute; a kind of tribute paid by the vas-sal to hls lord, being one of the incidents of the tenure by knight's service. Spelman

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Autre

L. Fr. Another

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Autrefois

L. Fr. At another time

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Autonomy

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

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Autopsy

The dissection of a dead body for the puri>ose of inquiring into the cause of death. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1288. Sudduth v. Insurance Co. (C. C.) 106 Fed. 823

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Autografh

The handwriting of any one

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Automatism

In medical jurispru-dence, this term is applied to actions or conduct of an individual apparently occur-ring without will, purpose, or reasoned intention on hls part; a condition sometimes observed in persons who, without being actually insane, suffer from an obscuration of the mental faculties, loss of volition or of memory, or kindred affections. “Ambulatory automatism" describes the pathological im-pulse to purposeless aud irresponsible wanderings from place to place often chnracter-istic of patients suffering from loss of memory with dissociation of personality

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Auto Aoordado

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the authority of the sovereign. Schm. Civil Law, 93

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Autocracy

The name of an unlim-lted monarchical government A government at the will of one man, (called an "auto-crat,”) unchecked by constitutional restrictions or limitations

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Authorities

Citations to statutes, precedents, judicial declsious, and text-books of the law, made on the argument of ques-ions of law or the trial of causes before a court, in support of the legal positions contended for

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Authority

In contracts. The lawful delegation of power by one person to an-other

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Authenticum

In tlxe civll law. An original instrument or writing; the original of a will or other instrument, as distinguished from a copy. Dig. 22, 4, 2; Id. 29, 3, 12

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Author

one who produces, by his own intellectual labor applied to the materials of his composition, an arrangement or compilation new in itself. Atwill v. Ferrett, 2 Blatchf. 39, Fed. Cas. No. 640; Nottage v. Jackson, 11 Q. B. Div. 637; Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U. S. 53, 4 Sup. Ct. 279, 28 L. Ed. 349

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