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Approbate and reprobate






Approbate and reprobate

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

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Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.

Maxim
An established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being just and consonant With reason.



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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.

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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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)

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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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
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.

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

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.

Appurtenance
Something that, although detached, stands as part of another thing. An attachment or appendage to something else. Used often in a real estate context where an "appurtenance" may be, for example, a right-of-way over water, which, although physically detached, is part of the legal rights of the owner of another property.

Appurtenances
In common parlance and legal acceptation, is used to signify something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to the principal thing.

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