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Acre
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AcreMeasures. A quantity of land containing in length forty perches, andfour in breadth, or one hundred and sixty square perches, of whatever shapemay be the land.
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Quantity
Pleading. That which is susceptible of measure.
Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.
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Acquiescence
Action or inaction which binds a person legally even though it was not intended as such. For example, action which is not intended as a direct acceptance of a contract will nevertheless stand as such as it implies recognition of the terms of the contract. For example, if I display a basket of fruit in a marketplace and you come by, inspect an apple and then bite into it, you have acquiesced to the contract of sale of that apple. Acquiescence also refers to allowing too much time to pass since you had knowledge of an event which may have allowed you to have legal recourse against another, implying that you waive your rights to that legal recourse.
Acquietandis plegiis
Obsolete. A writ of justices, lying, for the suretyagainst a creditor, who refuses to acquit him after the debt has been satisfied.
Acquired citizenship
Citizenship conferred at birth on children born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent(s).
Acquittal
1) Contracts. A release or discharge from an obligation orengagement. 2) Crim. law practice. The absolution of a party charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
Acquittance
Contracts. An agreement in writing to discharge a party from anengagement to pay a sum of money.
Acre
Acredulitare
Obsolete. To purge one's self of an offence by oath. It frequently happens that when a person has been arrested for a contempt, he comes into court and purges himself, on oath, of having intended any contempt.
Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.
Act in pais
An act performed out of court, and not a matter of record. A deed or an assurance transacted between two or more private persons in the country is matter in pais.
Act of god
An event which is caused solely by the effect of nature or natural causes and without any interference by humans whatsoever. Insurance contracts often exclude "acts of God" from the list of insurable occurrences as a means to waive their obligations for damage caused by hurricanes, floods or earthquakes, all examples of "acts of God".
Act of grace
Scotch law. The name by which the statute which provides for the aliment of prisoners confined for civil debts, is usually known.
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Quantity
Pleading. That which is susceptible of measure.
Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.
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PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Acquiescence
Action or inaction which binds a person legally even though it was not intended as such. For example, action which is not intended as a direct acceptance of a contract will nevertheless stand as such as it implies recognition of the terms of the contract. For example, if I display a basket of fruit in a marketplace and you come by, inspect an apple and then bite into it, you have acquiesced to the contract of sale of that apple. Acquiescence also refers to allowing too much time to pass since you had knowledge of an event which may have allowed you to have legal recourse against another, implying that you waive your rights to that legal recourse.
Acquietandis plegiis
Obsolete. A writ of justices, lying, for the suretyagainst a creditor, who refuses to acquit him after the debt has been satisfied.
Acquired citizenship
Citizenship conferred at birth on children born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent(s).
Acquittal
1) Contracts. A release or discharge from an obligation orengagement. 2) Crim. law practice. The absolution of a party charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
Acquittance
Contracts. An agreement in writing to discharge a party from anengagement to pay a sum of money.
Acre
Acredulitare
Obsolete. To purge one's self of an offence by oath. It frequently happens that when a person has been arrested for a contempt, he comes into court and purges himself, on oath, of having intended any contempt.
Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.
Act in pais
An act performed out of court, and not a matter of record. A deed or an assurance transacted between two or more private persons in the country is matter in pais.
Act of god
An event which is caused solely by the effect of nature or natural causes and without any interference by humans whatsoever. Insurance contracts often exclude "acts of God" from the list of insurable occurrences as a means to waive their obligations for damage caused by hurricanes, floods or earthquakes, all examples of "acts of God".
Act of grace
Scotch law. The name by which the statute which provides for the aliment of prisoners confined for civil debts, is usually known.
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