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Abigei






Abigei

Civil law. Stealers of cattle, who were punished with more severity than other thieves.

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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.

Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer



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Abigeat
Civil law. A particular kind of larceny, which is committed not by taking and carrying away the property from one place to another, but by driving a living thing away with an intention of feloniously appropriating the same.



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Aberemurder
Obsolete. An apparent, plain, or downright murder. It was used to distinguish a willful murder, from a chance-medley, or manslaughter.

Abet
The act of encouraging or inciting another to do a certain thing, such as a crime. For example, many countries will equally punish a person who aids or abets another to commit a crime.

Abettor
Criminal law. One who encourages or incites, persuades or sets anotheron to commit a crime.

Abiding by plea
English law. A defendant who pleads a frivolous plea, or a plea merely for the purpose of delaying the suit; or who for the same purpose, shall file a similar demurrer, may be compelled by rule in term time, or by a Judge's order in vacation, either to abide by that plea, or by that demurrer, or to plead peremptorily on the morrow; or if near the end of the term, and in order to afford time for notice of trial, the motion may be made in court for rule to abide or plead instanter.

Abigeat
Civil law. A particular kind of larceny, which is committed not by taking and carrying away the property from one place to another, but by driving a living thing away with an intention of feloniously appropriating the same.

Abigei

Ablegati
Diplomacy. Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent with a less extensive commission to a court where there are no nuncios.

Abnepos
Civil law. The grandson of a grandson or granddaughter, or fourth descendant.

Abortus
The fruit of an abortion; the child born before its time, incapable of life.

Abscond
To go in a clandestine manner out of the jurisdiction of the courts, or to lie concealed in order to avoid their process.

Absent parent
The parent who does not have custodial rights to the child, but is responsible for the partial support of the child and is physically absent from the home where the child resides. this parent is usually referred to as the non-custodial parent.

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