In ecclesiastical law. Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing
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In Scotch law. An abstract of the decree of adjudication, and of the lauds adjudged, with the amount of the debt Adjudication is that diligence (execution) of the law by which the real estate of a debtor is adjudged to belong to his creditor in payment of a debt; and the abbreviate must he recorded in the register of adjudications.
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A society of religious persons, bavlng an abbot or abbess to preside over them
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The splritual superior or governor of an abbey or monastery. Feminine, Abbess
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Lat in the civil law. A great-great-grandfather. Inst 3, 6, 4; Dig. 38,10,1, 6; Bract. foL 67a
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The government of a religious house, and the revenues thereof, subject to an abbot, as a bishopric is to a bishop. Cow-elh The rights and prlvlleges of an abbot
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A great-great-grandfather's sister. Braot fob 68b. This is a misprint for abamita, (q. v.) Burrlll
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Lat in the civil law. A great-great-grandmother's brother, (abaviae /rater.) Inst 3, 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called avunculus maximus. Id. 38,10,10, 17. Call-ed by Bracton and Fleta abavunculus magnus. Bract fol. 68b; Fleta, lib. 6, C. 2,119
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Anything diminished. Mon-eta abatuda is money clipped or diminished in value. Cowell; Dufresue
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Lat in the civil law. A great-great-grandmother. Inst 3, 6, 4; Dig. 38, 10, 1, 6; Bract fol. 68b
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In real property law, a strap; ger who, having no right of entry, contrives to get possession of an estate of freehold,' to the prejudice of the heir or devisee, before
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Lat To detect or discov-er, and disclose to a magistrate, any secret crime. Leges Canutl, cap. 10
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L. Lat in old Eng-lish law. An abatement of freehold; an en-try upon lands by way of Interposition be-tween the death of the ancestor and the en-try of the heir. Co. Litt. 277a; Yel. 151
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or ABANDUM. Anything sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned. Abandon, i. e., in bannum res missa, a thing han-ned or denounced as forfeited or lost, whence io abandon, desert, or forsake, as lost and gone. Cowell
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To desert, surrender, relin-quish, give up, or cede. See Abandonment
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A party to whom a right or property is abandoned or relinquished by another. Applied* to the insurers of vessels and cargoes. Lord Eilenborough, C. J., 5 Maule & S. 82; Abbott, J., Id. 87; Holroyd, J., Id. 89
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In Roman law. The perfect conveyance or transfer of property from one Roman citizen to another. Thls term gave place to the slmple alicnatio, which is used in the Digest and I nstitutes, as .veil
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Lat in the civil law. A great-great-grandfather's sister, (abavi soror.) Inst 3, 6^ 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called amita maxima. Id. 38, 10, 10, 17. Called, in Brac* ton, abamita magna. Bract fol. 68b
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In Roman law. A cattle thief. Also called ablgcus, q. v
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In Spanish law. Land owned by an ecclesiastical corporation, and therefore exempt from taxation. In particular, lands or towns under the dominion and jurisdiction of an abbot
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