Agenesia

In medical jurisprudence. Impotentia generandi; sexual impotence

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Agarder

L. Fr. To award, adjudge, or determine; to sentence, or condemn

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Age Prayer

A suggestion of non-age, made by an lnfant party to a real action, with a prayer that the proceedings may be deferred until hls full age. It is now abolished. St. 11 Geo. IV.; 1 wm. IV. c. 37, § 10; 1 LU. Reg. 54; 3 Bl. Comm. 300

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Agalma

An impression or image of anything on a seal. Cowell

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Agard

L. Fr. An award. Nul fait agard; no award made

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Afternoon

This word has two senses, it may mean the whole time from noon to midnight; or it may mean the earlier part of that time, as distinguished from the evening. When used in a statute its meaning must be determined by the con-text and the circumstances of the subject-matter. Reg. v. Knapp, 2 El. & Bl. 451

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Against

Adverse to; contrary; op-posed to; without the consent of; in con-tact with. State v. Metzger, 2<» Kan. 395; James v. Bank. 12 R. I. 4G0; Seabright v. Seabright. 28 W. Va, 465; State v. Prather, 54 Ind. 03

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After

Later, succeeding, subsequent to, Inferior In point of time or of priority or preference

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Aftermath

A second crop of grass mown in the same season; also the right to take such second crop. See 1 Chit. Gen. Pr. 181

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Aforesaid

Before, or already said, mentioned, or recited; premtsed. Plowd. 67. Foreaaid is used in Scotch law

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Aforethought

In criminal law. Deliberate; planned; premeditated; prepense. State v. Peo, 9 Houst. (Del.) 488, 33

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Affretement

Fr. In French law. The hiring of a vessel; affreightment. Call-ed also nolissement. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit 2, art. 2; Id. Hv. 3, tit 1, art. 1

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Affri

In old English law. Plow cat-tie, bullocks or plow horses. Affri, or afri earucte; beasts of the plow. Spelman

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Affrectamentum

Affreightment; a contract for tbe hiTe of a vessel. From the Fr. fret, which, according to Cowell, meant tons or tonnage

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Affreightment

A contract of af-frelghtment is a contract with a ship-owner to hire his ship, or part of It, for the car-rlage of goods. Such a contract generally takes the form either of a charter-party or of a blll of lading. Maude & P. Mer. Shipp. 227; Smith, Merc. Lnw, 295; Bramble v. Culmer, 78 Fed. 501, 24 C. C. A. 182; Auten v. Bennett, 88 App. Div. 15, 84 N. Y. Supp. 689

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Affranchise

To liberate; to make free

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Affray

In criminal law. The fight-lng of two or more persons in some public place to the terror of the people. Burton v. Com., 60 S. W. 526, 22 Ky. Law Rep. 1315: Thompson v. State, 70 Ala. 26; State v. Allen, 11 N. C. 356

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Affouage

In French lnw. The right of the inlmliltants of a commune or section of a commune to take from the forest the fire-wood which is necessary for their use. Duverger

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Affranchir

L. Fr. To set free

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Afforciamentum

In old English lnw. A fortress or stronghold, or other fortl-fication. Cowell

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Afforest

To convert land into a forest in the legal sense of the word

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Afforatus

Appraised or valued, as things vendible In a market. Blount

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Afforce

To add to; to increase; to strengthen ; to add force to

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Affixus

In the eivll law. Affixed, fix-ed, or fastened to

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Afforare

To set a price or value on a thing. Blount

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