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Assises of jerusalem






Assises of jerusalem

The name of a code of feudal law, made at a general assembly of lords, after the conquest of Jerusalem.

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

Code
Legislation. Signifies in general a collection of laws. It is a name given by way of eminence to a collection of such laws made by the legislature.

Feudal
A term applied to whatever concerned a feud; as feudal law: feudal rights.

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.

General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.

Assembly
The union of a number of persons in the same place.

Conquest
1) Feudal law. This term was used by the feudists to signify purchase. 2) French law. The name given to every acquisition which the husband and wife, jointly or severally, make during the conjugal community.



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Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.

Assignation
Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.

Assignee
One to whom an assignment has been made.

Assignment
The release by an afdc recipient of all rights to support arrearages owed the recipient and of the right to receive current child support as the result of the receipt of afdc.

Assignment of dower
The act by which the rights of a widow, in her deceased hushand's real estate, are ascertained and set apart for her benefit.

Assignment of errors
The act by which the plaintiff in error points out the errors in the record of which he complains

Assignment of rights and delegation of duties clause
Assignment is the transfer of rights under a contract, such as the right to be paid, to a third party. Delegation is the transfer of obligations under a contract to a third party. The delegation of a duty to perform personal services, such as writing a manuscript, is often limited by contract. Different from subcontracting because in delegation, the transferring party does not remain liable for performance on the contract.

Assignor
One who makes an assignment; one who transfers property to another.

Assigns
Contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession.

Assisors
Scotch law. This term corresponds nearly to that of jurors.

Assistance
A French term, reflecting the civilian equivalent of salvage, based on the Roman law concept of negotiorum gestio (management of the business of another), whereby the "assistant" is remunerated for his efforts to save ship and cargo, regardless of whether or not those efforts are successful. In French internal law, "assistance", referring to salvage of a ship, cargo, and/or persons in peril at sea, is distinguished from "sauvetage".

Assize of mort d' ancestor
The name, of an ancient writ. It might have been sued out by one whose father, mother, brother, died seised of lands, and tonements, which they held in fee , and which, after their death, a stranger abated.



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Assignment of dower
The act by which the rights of a widow, in her deceased hushand's real estate, are ascertained and set apart for her benefit.

Assignment of errors
The act by which the plaintiff in error points out the errors in the record of which he complains

Assignment of rights and delegation of duties clause
Assignment is the transfer of rights under a contract, such as the right to be paid, to a third party. Delegation is the transfer of obligations under a contract to a third party. The delegation of a duty to perform personal services, such as writing a manuscript, is often limited by contract. Different from subcontracting because in delegation, the transferring party does not remain liable for performance on the contract.

Assignor
One who makes an assignment; one who transfers property to another.

Assigns
Contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession.

Assises of jerusalem

Assisors
Scotch law. This term corresponds nearly to that of jurors.

Assistance
A French term, reflecting the civilian equivalent of salvage, based on the Roman law concept of negotiorum gestio (management of the business of another), whereby the "assistant" is remunerated for his efforts to save ship and cargo, regardless of whether or not those efforts are successful. In French internal law, "assistance", referring to salvage of a ship, cargo, and/or persons in peril at sea, is distinguished from "sauvetage".

Assize of mort d' ancestor
The name, of an ancient writ. It might have been sued out by one whose father, mother, brother, died seised of lands, and tonements, which they held in fee , and which, after their death, a stranger abated.

Associate
This term is applied to a judge who is not the president of a court; as associate judge.

Association
The act of a number of persons uniting together for some purpose; the persons so joined are also called an association.

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