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Ascendants
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AscendantsThose from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be.
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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Remote
At a distance; afar off, not immediate. A remote cause is not in general sufficient to charge a man with the commission of a crime, nor with being the author of a tort.
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Artificers
Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily labor. Those who are masters of their arts.
Artificial
What is the result of, or relates to, the arts; opposed to natural; thus we say a corporation is an artificial person, in opposition to a natural person.
Artificial general average
This is a term coined by Leslie J. Buglass to refer to general average claimed under the York/Antwerp Rules, despite the absence of one of the basic historic characteristics of general average.
Artificial person
In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons.
As
1) First, it signifies weight, and in this sense, the Roman as, is the same thing as the Roman pound, which was composed of twelve ounces. 2) From this primitive and proper sense of the word another was derived: that namely of the totality of a thing, Solidum quid.
Ascendants
Ascriptitius
Civil law. Among the Romans, ascriptitii were foreigners, who had been naturalized, and who had in general the same rights as natives.
Asportation
The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another.
Assassin
Crim, law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place) or of a number of persons who support him, and kills his victim.
Assassination
Criminal law. A murder committed by an assassin. By assassination is understood a murder committed for hire in money, without any provocation or cause of resentment given by the person against whom the crime is directed.
Assault
The touching of another person with an intent to harm, without that person's consent.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Remote
At a distance; afar off, not immediate. A remote cause is not in general sufficient to charge a man with the commission of a crime, nor with being the author of a tort.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Artificers
Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily labor. Those who are masters of their arts.
Artificial
What is the result of, or relates to, the arts; opposed to natural; thus we say a corporation is an artificial person, in opposition to a natural person.
Artificial general average
This is a term coined by Leslie J. Buglass to refer to general average claimed under the York/Antwerp Rules, despite the absence of one of the basic historic characteristics of general average.
Artificial person
In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons.
As
1) First, it signifies weight, and in this sense, the Roman as, is the same thing as the Roman pound, which was composed of twelve ounces. 2) From this primitive and proper sense of the word another was derived: that namely of the totality of a thing, Solidum quid.
Ascendants
Ascriptitius
Civil law. Among the Romans, ascriptitii were foreigners, who had been naturalized, and who had in general the same rights as natives.
Asportation
The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another.
Assassin
Crim, law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place) or of a number of persons who support him, and kills his victim.
Assassination
Criminal law. A murder committed by an assassin. By assassination is understood a murder committed for hire in money, without any provocation or cause of resentment given by the person against whom the crime is directed.
Assault
The touching of another person with an intent to harm, without that person's consent.
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