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Avow
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AvowLatin Ad-vovere, to vow to: ad-vocare. To declare openly; to acknowledge and justify an act; opposed to disavow.
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Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.
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Avoid
To make empty, put out of the way. To cause to be or become empty; to render useless or void; to make inoperative or of no effect; to nullify. As oppossed to: affirm, confirm.
Avoidance
1) Ecclesiastical law. It is when a benefice becomes vacant for want of an incumbent; and, in this sense, it is opposed to plenarty. 2) Pleading. The introductiou of new or special matter, which, admitting the premises of the opposite party, avoids or repels his conclusions.
Avoidance of the law
In the conflict of law, the intentional arrangement of connecting factors (contacts) (infra) in an agreement, usually by equal bargaining parties, for a legitimate purpose, in order to ensure the applicability to the agreement of a particular law or jurisdiction.
Avoir du pois
Common law. The name of a peculiar weight. This kind of weight is so named in distinction from the Troy weight. One pound avoir du pois contains 7000 grains Troy; that is, fourteen ounces, eleven pennyweights and sixteen grains Troy a pound avoir du pois contains sixteen ounces; and an ounce sixteen drachms. Thirty-two cubic feet of pure spring-water, at the temperature of fifty-six degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, make a ton of 2000 pounds avoir du pois, or two thousand two hundred and forty pounds net weight.
Avouciier
The call which the tenant makes on another who is bound to him by warranty to come into court, either to defend the right against the demandant, or to yield him other land in value
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Avowant
Practice, pleading. One who makes an avowry.
Avowee
Ecclesiastical law. An advocate of a church benefice.
Avowry
Pleading. An avowry is where the defendant in an action of replevin, avows the taking of the distress in his own right, or in right of his wife, and sets forth the cause of it, as for arrears of rent, damage done, or the like.
Avowterer
English law. An adulterer with whom a married woman continues in adultery.
Avowtry
English law. The crime of adultery.
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Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.
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Avoid
To make empty, put out of the way. To cause to be or become empty; to render useless or void; to make inoperative or of no effect; to nullify. As oppossed to: affirm, confirm.
Avoidance
1) Ecclesiastical law. It is when a benefice becomes vacant for want of an incumbent; and, in this sense, it is opposed to plenarty. 2) Pleading. The introductiou of new or special matter, which, admitting the premises of the opposite party, avoids or repels his conclusions.
Avoidance of the law
In the conflict of law, the intentional arrangement of connecting factors (contacts) (infra) in an agreement, usually by equal bargaining parties, for a legitimate purpose, in order to ensure the applicability to the agreement of a particular law or jurisdiction.
Avoir du pois
Common law. The name of a peculiar weight. This kind of weight is so named in distinction from the Troy weight. One pound avoir du pois contains 7000 grains Troy; that is, fourteen ounces, eleven pennyweights and sixteen grains Troy a pound avoir du pois contains sixteen ounces; and an ounce sixteen drachms. Thirty-two cubic feet of pure spring-water, at the temperature of fifty-six degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, make a ton of 2000 pounds avoir du pois, or two thousand two hundred and forty pounds net weight.
Avouciier
The call which the tenant makes on another who is bound to him by warranty to come into court, either to defend the right against the demandant, or to yield him other land in value
Avow
Avowant
Practice, pleading. One who makes an avowry.
Avowee
Ecclesiastical law. An advocate of a church benefice.
Avowry
Pleading. An avowry is where the defendant in an action of replevin, avows the taking of the distress in his own right, or in right of his wife, and sets forth the cause of it, as for arrears of rent, damage done, or the like.
Avowterer
English law. An adulterer with whom a married woman continues in adultery.
Avowtry
English law. The crime of adultery.
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