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Affection
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AffectionContracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assurp the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service.
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Payment
1) Contracts. That which is given to execute what has been promised; or it is the fulfilment of a promise. Solvere dicimus cum quis fecit, quod facere promisit. But though this is the general acceptation of the word, yet by payment is understood, every way by which the creditor is satisfied or ought to be, and the debtor, liberated for example, an accord and satisfaction will operate as a payment. 2) Pleadings. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has paid the debt claimed in the declaration; this plea must conclude to the country.
Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
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Affeerers
English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet.
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Advocate
Civil and ecclesiastical law. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common law.
Advocatia
Civil law.This sometimes signifies the quality, or functions, and at other times the privilege, or the territorial jurisdiction of an advocate.
Advocation
Scotch law. A writing drawn up in the form of a petition, called a bill of advocation, by which a party in an action applies to the supreme court to advocate its cause, and to call the action out of an inferior court to itself. Letters of advocation, are the decree or warrant of the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging the inferior tribunal from all further proceedings in the matter, and advocating the action to itself. This proceeding is similar to a certiorari issuing out of a superior court for the removal of a cause from an inferior.
Advocatus
A pleader, a narrator
Advow
Advow or avow.Practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerly done.
Affection
Affeerers
English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet.
Affiance
Contracts. From affidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge. A plighting of troth between a man and woman.
Affiant
The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit.
Affidare
To plight one's faith, or give fealty.
Affidatio dominorum
English law.An oath taken by a lord in parliament.
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Payment
1) Contracts. That which is given to execute what has been promised; or it is the fulfilment of a promise. Solvere dicimus cum quis fecit, quod facere promisit. But though this is the general acceptation of the word, yet by payment is understood, every way by which the creditor is satisfied or ought to be, and the debtor, liberated for example, an accord and satisfaction will operate as a payment. 2) Pleadings. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has paid the debt claimed in the declaration; this plea must conclude to the country.
Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
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Affeerers
English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet.
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Advocate
Civil and ecclesiastical law. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does in the common law.
Advocatia
Civil law.This sometimes signifies the quality, or functions, and at other times the privilege, or the territorial jurisdiction of an advocate.
Advocation
Scotch law. A writing drawn up in the form of a petition, called a bill of advocation, by which a party in an action applies to the supreme court to advocate its cause, and to call the action out of an inferior court to itself. Letters of advocation, are the decree or warrant of the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging the inferior tribunal from all further proceedings in the matter, and advocating the action to itself. This proceeding is similar to a certiorari issuing out of a superior court for the removal of a cause from an inferior.
Advocatus
A pleader, a narrator
Advow
Advow or avow.Practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerly done.
Affection
Affeerers
English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet.
Affiance
Contracts. From affidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge. A plighting of troth between a man and woman.
Affiant
The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit.
Affidare
To plight one's faith, or give fealty.
Affidatio dominorum
English law.An oath taken by a lord in parliament.
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