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Apprizing






Apprizing

A name for an action in the Scotch law, by which a creditor formerly carried off the estates of his debtor in payment of debts due to him in lieu of which, adjudications are now resorted to.

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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.

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.

Creditor
Creditor or obligee. Contracts. The person in favor of whom some obliga- tion is contracted, whether such obligation be to pay money, or to do, or not to do something.

Debtor
Debtor or obligor. The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. The word obligor, in its more technical signification, is applied to designate one who makes a bond.

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.

Lieu
Place. Iu lieu of, instead, in the place of.



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Appraisal
The procedure for determining the fair market value of an asset for equitable distribution in divorce.

Appraisal report
A report of the results of an appraisal which begins with the definition of an appraisal problem and leads to a specific conclusion using reasoning and relevant descriptive data.

Appraisement
A just valuation of property.

Appraiser
Practice. A person appointed by competent authority to appraise or value goods; as in case of the death of a person, an appraisement and inventory must be made of the goods of which he died possessed, or was entitled to. Appraisers are sometimes appointed to assess the damage done to property, by some public work, or to estimate its value when taken for public use.

Apprehension
Practice. The capture or arrest of a person.

Apprentice
Person, contracts. A person bound in due form of law to a master, to learn from him his art, trade or business, and to serve him during the time of his apprenticeship.

Approaches to the conflict of laws
Instead of the classic chronological, historical approach to private international law, W. Tetley has divided conflict of law theory into five theoretical approaches: 1) single concepts (single principles); 2) multiple numbered rules (infra); 3) general texts (infra); 4) national legislation and international conventions; 5) methodologies (infra)

Approbate and reprobate
In Scotland this term is used to signify to approve and reject. It is a maxim quod approbo non reprobo.

Appropriation
Ecclesiastical law The setting apart an ecclesiastical benefice, which is the general property of the church, to the perpetual and proper use of some religious house, bishop or college, dean and chapter and the like.

Approvement
1) English Criminal law. The act by which a person indicted of treason or felony, and arraigned for the same, confesses the same before any plea pleaded, and accuses others, his accomplices, of the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 2) English law. The inclosing of common land within the lord's waste, so as to leave egress and regress to a tenant who is a commoner.

Approver
English Criminal law. One confessing himself guilty of felony, and approving others of the same crime to save himself.



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Appraisal report
A report of the results of an appraisal which begins with the definition of an appraisal problem and leads to a specific conclusion using reasoning and relevant descriptive data.

Appraisement
A just valuation of property.

Appraiser
Practice. A person appointed by competent authority to appraise or value goods; as in case of the death of a person, an appraisement and inventory must be made of the goods of which he died possessed, or was entitled to. Appraisers are sometimes appointed to assess the damage done to property, by some public work, or to estimate its value when taken for public use.

Apprehension
Practice. The capture or arrest of a person.

Apprentice
Person, contracts. A person bound in due form of law to a master, to learn from him his art, trade or business, and to serve him during the time of his apprenticeship.

Apprizing

Approaches to the conflict of laws
Instead of the classic chronological, historical approach to private international law, W. Tetley has divided conflict of law theory into five theoretical approaches: 1) single concepts (single principles); 2) multiple numbered rules (infra); 3) general texts (infra); 4) national legislation and international conventions; 5) methodologies (infra)

Approbate and reprobate
In Scotland this term is used to signify to approve and reject. It is a maxim quod approbo non reprobo.

Appropriation
Ecclesiastical law The setting apart an ecclesiastical benefice, which is the general property of the church, to the perpetual and proper use of some religious house, bishop or college, dean and chapter and the like.

Approvement
1) English Criminal law. The act by which a person indicted of treason or felony, and arraigned for the same, confesses the same before any plea pleaded, and accuses others, his accomplices, of the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 2) English law. The inclosing of common land within the lord's waste, so as to leave egress and regress to a tenant who is a commoner.

Approver
English Criminal law. One confessing himself guilty of felony, and approving others of the same crime to save himself.

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