Category: Black’s Law Dictionary (2nd edition)

In old English law. A house-holder, or occupant of a house or hearth Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An heir ap Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An arraignment, (q. v Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. Dam-ages awarded to the relative of a murdered person from the guilty party, who has not been convicted and […]

A mutual agreement, assent, and consent between parties; also a witness or record Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A person who has been in-sured by some insurance company, or umler-writer, agaiust losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance. […]

An insurer against certain perils and dangers; an underwriter; an in-demnifier Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The act or agreement of assuming or taking upon one’s self; the un* dertaking or adoption of a debt or obligation primarily […]

In conveyancing. A Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To undertake; engage; promise. 1 Ld. Raym. 122; 4 Coke, 92. To take upon one’s self. Springer v. De wolf, 194 111. […]

Lat He undertook; he promised. A promise or engagement by which one person assumes or undertakes to do some act or pay […]

To absolve; acquit; to eet free; to deliver from excommunication. SL 1 Hen. IV. c. 7; Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In Scotch law. To acquit the defendant in an action; to find a crirni-nal not guilty Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

The act of a number of iiersons who unite or join together for some special purpose or business. The union of a […]

In French Law. In a socidtd en commandite an associd en nom is one who is liable for the engagements of the […]

A code of feudal jurisprudence prepared by an as-sembly of barons and lords A. D. 1099, after the conquest of Jerusalem Source: […]

An officer in each of the English courts of common law, appointed by the chief judge of the court, and holding his […]

In the practice of the criminal courts of Scotland, the fifteen men who de-dde on the conviction or. acquittal of an ac-cused […]

Sessions of the justices or commissioners of assize. See Assise Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Rented or farmed out for a specified assise; that is, a payment of a certain assessed rent in money or provisions Source: […]

weregeld or compensation by a pecuniary mulct Coweli Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To help; aid; Buccor; lend countenance or encouragement to; particl-pate in as an auxiliary. People v. Hayne, 83 Cal. Ill, 23 Pac. […]

A judge of the English court of general or quarter sessions in Middlesex. He differs from the other justices in being a […]

An assessor; juror; an oflicer who has the care and oversight of weights and measures Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. Jurors; the persons who formed that kind of court which in Scotland was called an “assise,” for the purpose […]