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Abavus
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AbavusCivil law. Is the great grandfather, or fourth male ascendant.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Grandfather
Domestic relations. The father of one's father or mother. The father's father is called the paternal grandfather; the mother's father is the maternal grandfather.
Male
Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young; the sex opposed to the female.
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Abavia
Civil law. Is the great grandmother, or fourth female ascendant.
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Abatement of action
A suit which has been quashed and ended.
Abatement of legacies
Is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying the testator's debts.
Abator
1) He who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2) He who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudiae of an heir or devisee, after the time when the ancestor died, and before the heir or devisee enters.
Abatuda
Obsolete. Any thing diminished; as, moneta abatuda, which is moneyclipped or diminished in value.
Abavia
Civil law. Is the great grandmother, or fourth female ascendant.
Abavus
Abbacinare
A barbaric form of corporal punishment meted out in the middle ages where persons would be permanently blinded by the pressing of hot irons to the open eyes.
Abbey, abbatia
Is a society of religious persons, having an abbot or abbessto preside over them.
Abbreviation
Practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing
Abbreviators
Ecclesiastical law Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the Pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, to be converted into Papal Bulls.
Abbroachment
Obsolete. The forestalling of a market or fair.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Grandfather
Domestic relations. The father of one's father or mother. The father's father is called the paternal grandfather; the mother's father is the maternal grandfather.
Male
Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young; the sex opposed to the female.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Abavia
Civil law. Is the great grandmother, or fourth female ascendant.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Abatement of action
A suit which has been quashed and ended.
Abatement of legacies
Is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying the testator's debts.
Abator
1) He who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2) He who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudiae of an heir or devisee, after the time when the ancestor died, and before the heir or devisee enters.
Abatuda
Obsolete. Any thing diminished; as, moneta abatuda, which is moneyclipped or diminished in value.
Abavia
Civil law. Is the great grandmother, or fourth female ascendant.
Abavus
Abbacinare
A barbaric form of corporal punishment meted out in the middle ages where persons would be permanently blinded by the pressing of hot irons to the open eyes.
Abbey, abbatia
Is a society of religious persons, having an abbot or abbessto preside over them.
Abbreviation
Practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing
Abbreviators
Ecclesiastical law Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the Pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, to be converted into Papal Bulls.
Abbroachment
Obsolete. The forestalling of a market or fair.
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