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  • ASTRER
    In old English law. A householder, or occupant of a house or hearth.
  • ASTRICT
    In Scotch law. To assign to a particular mill.
  • ASTRICTION TO A MILL
    A servitude by which grain growing on certain lands or brought within them must be carried to a certain mill to be ground, a certain multure or price being paid for the same. Jacob.
  • ASTRIHILTET
    In Saxon law. A penalty for a wrong done by one in the king's peace. The offender was to replace the damage twofold. Spelman.
  • ASTRUM
    A house, or place of habitation. Bract fol. 267b; Cowell.
  • ASYLUM
    1. A sanctuary, or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be taken without sacrilege. State v. Bacon, 6 Neb. 291; Cromie v. Institution of Mercy, 3 Bush (Ky.) 391. 2. Shelter; refuge; protection from the hand of justice. The More...
  • AT ARM'S LENGTH
    Beyond the reach of personal influence or control. Parties are said to deal "at arm's length" when each stands upon, the strict letter of his rights, and conducts the business in a formal manner, without trusting to the other's fairness or integrity, and without being subject to the other's control More...
  • AT BAR
    Before the court. "The case at bar," etc. Dyer, 31.
  • AT LARGE
    (1) Not limited to any particular place, district, person, matter, or question. (2) Free; unrestrained; not under corporal control; as a ferocious animal so free from restraint as to be liable to do mischief. (3) Fully; in detail; in an extended form.
  • AT LAW
    According to law; by, for, or in law; particularly in distinction from that which is done in or according to equity; or in titles such as sergeant at law, barrister at law, attorney or counsellor at law. See Hooker v. Nichols, 116 N. a 157, 21 S. B. 208.
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