Arator

A plow-man; a farmer of ara-ble land

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Aratrum Terras

In old English law. A plow of land; a plow-land; as much land as could be tilled with one plow, whis-haw

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Araho

In feudal law. To make oath in the church or some other holy place. All oaths were made in the church upon the rel-ics of saints, according to the Ripuarian laws. Cowell; Spelman

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Aralta

Plow-lands. Land fit for the plow. Denoting the character of land, rath-er than its condition. Spelman

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Aquatic Rights

Rights which indl-vlduals have to the use of the sea and rivers, for the purpose of fishing and navigation, and also to the soil in the sea and rivers

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Arabant

They plowed. A term of feudal law, applied to those who held by the tenure of plowing and tilling the lord’s lands within the manor. Cowell

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Aquae Immittendab

A civil law easement or servitude, consisting in the right of one whose house is surrounded with other buildings to cast waste water upon the adja-cent roofs or yards. Similar to the common

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Aquagium

A canal, ditch, or water-course running through marshy grounds. A mark or gauge placed in or on the banks of a running stream, to indicate the height of the water, was called “aquagaugium." Spel-man

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Aqua

In the civil and old English law. water; sometimes a stream or water-course

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Aquae Haustus

In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the right to draw water from the fountain, pool, or spring of another. Inst. 2, 3, 2; Dig. 8, 8, 1, 1

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Apta Viro

Fit for a husband; marriageable; a woman who has reached marriageable years

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Apud Acta

Among the acts; among the recorded proceedings. In the civil law, this phrase is applied to appeals taken orally, in the presence of the judge, at the time of judgment or sentence

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Appurtenant

Belonging to; acces-sory or Incident to; adjunct, appended, or annexed to; answering to aceessorium in the civil law. 2 Steph. Comm. 30 note

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Aprovechamiento

In Spanish law. Approvement, or improvement and enjoyment of public lands. As applied to pueblo lands, it has particular reference to the commons, and includes not only the actual enjoyment of them but a right to such enjoy-ment. Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 530, 566

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Appulsus

In the civil law. A drlv-ing to, as of cattle to water. Dig. 8, 3, 1, 1

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Appurtenance

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an append-age; something annexed to another thing more worthy as principal, and which posses as Incident to it, as a right of way or other easement to land; an out-house, barn, gar-den, or orchard, to a house or messuage. Meek v. Breckenridge, 29 ohio St 642; Harris v. Elliott, 10 Pet. 54, 9 L. Ed. 333; Humphreys v. McKissock, 140 U. S. 304, 11 Sup. Ct. 779, 35 L. Ed. 473; Farmer v. wa-ter Co., 56 Cal. 11

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Approver

L. Fr. To approve or prove; to vouch. Kelham

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Appruare

To take to one's use or profit. Cowell

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Approved Indorsed Notes

Notes indorsed by another person than the maker, for additional security.

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Approvement

By the common law, approvement is said to he a species of confession, aud incident to the arraignment of a prisoner indicted for treason or felony, who confesses the fact before plea pleaded, and appeals or accuses others, his accomplices in the same crime, in order to obtain his own pardon. In this case he is called an "ap-prover,” or "prover,” “prohator,” and the party appealed or accused is called the “ap-pellee.” Such approvement can only be in capital offenses, and it is. as it were, equlva-lent to an Indictment, since the appellee is equally called upon to answer it. Gray v. People. 26 111. 344: whiskey Cases, 99 T’. S. 599. 25 L. Ed. 399; State v. Graham, 41 N. J. Law, 15, 32 Am. Rep. 174

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Approval

The act of a judge or magistrate in sanctioning and accepting as satisfactory a bond, security, or other in-strumeut which is required by law to pass his inspection and receive his approbation before it becomes operative

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Approve

To take to one's proper and separate use. To improve; to enhance the value or profits of anything. To inclose and cultivate common or waste land

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Appropriation

The act of appro-printiug or setting apart; prescribing the destination of a thing; designating the use or application of a fund

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Appropriator

one who makes an appropriation; as, an appropriator of wa-ter. Lux v. Haggin, 69 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 736

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