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A letting out to hire, or leasing for money. Calvin. Sometimes used in the English form “ablocntlon.” Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Lat. In the clvll law. A great-great-grandmother’s sister, (abavite soror.) Inst. 3, 6. 6; Dig. 38, 10, & Called matcrtera maxima. Id. […]

As used in a statute relating to service in the militia, tills term does not imply an absolute freedom from all physical […]

Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent to a country where there is not a nuncio, with a less ex-tensive […]

In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To renounce, or abandon, by or upon oath. See Abjuration Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

IO. In old English law. The depriving of a thing by the judgment of a court; a putting out of court; the […]

Qne of the steps in the process of naturaliz-ing an alien. It consists in a formal declaration, made by the party under […]

Lat (Pl., abigei, or more rarely abigeatores.) In the civil law. ‘ A stealer of cattle; one who drove or drew nway […]

or ABISHERSING Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in tbe civil law. The offense of stenllng or driving nwny cat-tie. See Abiueus Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the clvll law. To drive awny. Applied to those who drove nway animals with the intention of stealing them. Applied, […]

To “abide the order of the court” means to perform, execute, or conform to such order. Jackson v. State, 30 Kan. 88, […]

In Scotch law. A Ju-dicial declaration that the party abides by the deed on which he founds, in an action where the […]

In the law of estates. Expectation; waiting; suspense; remembrance and contemplation in law. where there is no person in existence in whom […]

or AVIATIOUS. L. Lat Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Lat in old English law. An abettor. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 65, 8 7. See Abettor Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In criminal law. An instigator, or setter on; one who promotes or procures a crime to be committed; one who commands, advises, […]

Lat in the civil law. To be absent; to be away from a place. Said of a person who was extra continentia […]

In criminal law. To encourage, incite, or set another on to commit a crime. See Abettor Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In criminal law. The offense of taking away a man’s wife, child, or ward, by fraud and persuasion, or open violence. 3 […]

(From Sax. abere, apparent, notorious; and mord, murder.) Plain or downright murder, as distinguished from the less heinous crime of manslaughter, or […]

or ABBROAOH-MENT. The act of forestalling a market, by buying up at wholesale the merchandise intended to be sold there, for the […]

The act of a sovereign in renouncing and relinquishing his government or throne, so that either the throne is left entirely vacant, […]

Shortened conventional expressions, employed as substitutes for names, phrases, dates, and the like, for the saving of space, of time in transcribing, […]