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Arms
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Arms1) Any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at, or strike at another. 2) Heraldry. Signs of arms, or drawings painted on shields, banners, and the like.
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Strike
Highlighting in the record of a case, evidence that has been improperly offered and will not be relied upon.
Heraldry
Civil and canon law. The art or office of a herald. It is the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial. It also teaches whatever relates to the marshaling of cavalcades, processions, and other public ceremonies.
Arms
1) Any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at, or strike at another. 2) Heraldry. Signs of arms, or drawings painted on shields, banners, and the like.
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Argumentum ab inconvenienti
An argument arising from the inconvenience which the construction of the law would create, is to have effect only in a case where the law is doubtful where the law is certain, such an argument is of no force.
Aristocracy
That form of government in which the sovereign power is exercised by a small number of persons to the exclusion of the remainder of the people.
Aristodemocracy
A form of government where the power is divided between the great men of the nation and the people.
Arm of the sea
Lord Coke defines an arm of the sea to be where the sea or tide flows or reflows. This term includes bays, roads, creeks, coves, ports, and rivers where the water flows and reflows, whether it be salt or fresh.
Armistice
A cessation of hostilities between belligerent nations for a considerable time.
Arms
Arpent
A quantity of land containing a French acre.
Arpentator
From arpent. A measurer or surveyor of land.
Arraignment
In USA criminal law, the formal appearance of an accused person to hear, and to receive a copy of, the charge against him or her, in the presence of a judge, and to then enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. The arraignment is the final preparatory step before the criminal trial.
Arras
Spanish law. The property contributed by the hushand, ad sustinenda onera matrimonii, is called arras. The hushand is under no obligation to give arras, but it is a donation purely voluntary. He is not permitted to give in arras more than a tenth of his property. The arras is the exclusive property of the wife, subject to the hushand's usufruct during his life.
Array
Practice. The whole body of jurors summoned to attend a court, as they are arrayed or arranged on the panel.
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Strike
Highlighting in the record of a case, evidence that has been improperly offered and will not be relied upon.
Heraldry
Civil and canon law. The art or office of a herald. It is the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial. It also teaches whatever relates to the marshaling of cavalcades, processions, and other public ceremonies.
Arms
1) Any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at, or strike at another. 2) Heraldry. Signs of arms, or drawings painted on shields, banners, and the like.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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Argumentum ab inconvenienti
An argument arising from the inconvenience which the construction of the law would create, is to have effect only in a case where the law is doubtful where the law is certain, such an argument is of no force.
Aristocracy
That form of government in which the sovereign power is exercised by a small number of persons to the exclusion of the remainder of the people.
Aristodemocracy
A form of government where the power is divided between the great men of the nation and the people.
Arm of the sea
Lord Coke defines an arm of the sea to be where the sea or tide flows or reflows. This term includes bays, roads, creeks, coves, ports, and rivers where the water flows and reflows, whether it be salt or fresh.
Armistice
A cessation of hostilities between belligerent nations for a considerable time.
Arms
Arpent
A quantity of land containing a French acre.
Arpentator
From arpent. A measurer or surveyor of land.
Arraignment
In USA criminal law, the formal appearance of an accused person to hear, and to receive a copy of, the charge against him or her, in the presence of a judge, and to then enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. The arraignment is the final preparatory step before the criminal trial.
Arras
Spanish law. The property contributed by the hushand, ad sustinenda onera matrimonii, is called arras. The hushand is under no obligation to give arras, but it is a donation purely voluntary. He is not permitted to give in arras more than a tenth of his property. The arras is the exclusive property of the wife, subject to the hushand's usufruct during his life.
Array
Practice. The whole body of jurors summoned to attend a court, as they are arrayed or arranged on the panel.
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