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  • ADCORDABILIS DENARII
    Money paid by a vassal to his lord upon the selling or exchanging of a feud. Enc. Lond.
  • ADDICERE
    Lat. In the civil law. To adjudge or condemn; to assign, allot, or deliver; to sell. In the Roman law, addico was one of the three words used to express the extent of the civil jurisdiction of the praetors.
  • ADDICTIO
    In the Roman law. The giving up to a creditor of his debtor's person by a magistrate; also the transfer of the debtor's goods to one who assumes his liabilities. Additio probat minoritatem. An addition [to a name] proves or shows minority or Inferiority. 4 Inst 80; Wing. Max. 211 More...
  • ADDITION
    Whatever is added to a man's name by way of title or description, as additions of mystery, place, or degree. Cowell. In English law, there are four kinds of additions.—additions of estate, such as yeoman, gentleman, esquire; additions of degree, or names of dignity, as knight, earl, marquis, duke; additions More...
  • ADDITIONAL
    This term embraces the idea of joining or uniting one thing to another, so as thereby to form one aggregate. Thus, "additional security" imports a security, which, united with or joined to the former one, is deemed to make it, as an aggregate, sufficient as a security from the beginning. More...
  • ADDITIONALES
    In the law of contracts. Additional terms or propositions to be added to a former agreement.
  • ADDONE
    Addonne. L. Fr. Given to. Kelham.
  • ADDRESS
    That part of a bill in equity wherein is given the appropriate and technical description of the court in which the bill is filed. The word is sometimes used as descriptive of a formal document embodying a request presented to the governor of a state by one or both branches More...
  • ADDUCE
    To present, bring forward, offer, introduce. Used particularly with reference to evidence. Tuttle v. Story County, 56 Iowa, 316, 9 N. W. 292. "The word 'adduced' is broader in its signification than the word 'offered,' and, looking to the whole statement in relation to the evidence below, we think it More...
  • ADEEM
    To take away, recall, or revoke. To satisfy a legacy by some gift or substituted disposition, made by the testator, in advance. Tolman v. Tolman, 85 Me. 317, 27 Atl. 184. See ADEMPTION.
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