The proof or trial, by. chemical experiments, of the purity or fineness of met-als,—particularly of the precious metals, gold and silver
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Murder committed for hire, without provocation or cause of resentment given to the murderer by the’ person upon whom the crime is committed. Ersk. Inst. 4, 4, 45
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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
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In old welsh law. An oath made by compurgators. Brown
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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 is the cuttiug dowr of coverts which may grow again, whereas assart is
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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
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He carried away. Some-times used as a noun to denote a carrying away. An “asportavit of personal chattels.” 2 H. Bl. 4
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View; object; possibility. Im-plies the existence of alternatives. Used in the phrases “bill with a double aspect” and “contingency with a double aspect.’’
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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 the blood. See State v. Baldwin, 36 Kan. 1, 12 Pac. 328
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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
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In Roman law. A foreigner who had been registered and nat-uralized in the colony in which he resided. Cod. 11, 47
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In Spanish law. As-cendants; ascending heirs; heirs in the as-cending line. Schm. Civil Law, 259
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Passage upwards; the trans-mission of an estate from the ancestor to tbe heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent. Comm. 393, 397
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To go up; to pass up or np-wards; to go or pass in the ascending line. 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397
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Persons with whom one is related in the ascending line; one's parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc
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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
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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 of words to the rights of the bailor, wharton
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Technically; scien-tiflcally; using terms of art. A will or con-tract is described as “artificially” drawn if , it is couched in apt and technical phrascs and exhibits a scientific arrangement
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An old English law term, signifying a day’s work in plowing
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(or more com-monly in articulo mortis.) In the article of death; at the point of death
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Created by art, or by law; existing only hy force of or in con-templation of law
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Article by article; by distinct clauses or articles; hy separate propositions
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Lat Articles; items or heads. A term applied to some old English statutes, and occasionally to treatises
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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
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