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  • ADVOWEE, OR AVOWEE
    The person or patron who has a right to present to a benefice. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 14. —Advowee paramount. The sovereign, or highest patron.
  • ADVOWSON
    In English ecclesiastical law. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the right of presenting a fit person to the bishop, to be by him admitted and instituted to a certain benefice within the diocese, which has become vacant. 2 Bl. Comm. 21; Co. Litt. 1196, 120a. More...
  • ADVOWTRY
    See ADVOUTRY
  • AEDES
    Lat. In the civil law. A house, dwelling, place of habitation, whether in the city or country. Dig. 30, 41, 5. In the country everything upon the surface of the soil passed under the term "aedes." Du Cange; Calvin.
  • AEDIFICARE
    Lat. In civil and old English law. To make or build a house; to erect a building. Dig. 45. 1, 75, 7. Aedificare in tuo proprio solo non licet quod alter noceat. 3 Inst. 201. To build upon your own land what may injure another is not lawful. A proprietor More...
  • AEDILE
    In Roman law. An officer who attended to the repairs of the temples and other public buildings; the repairs and cleanliness of the streets; the care of the weights and measures; the providing for funerals and games; and regulating the prices of provisions. Ainsw. Lex.; Smith, Lex.; Du Cange.
  • AEDILITUM EDICTUM
    In the Roman law. The Aedilitlan Edict; an edict providing remedies for frauds in sales, the execution of which belonged to the curule sediles. Dig. 21. 1. See Cod. 4, 58.
  • AEFESN
    In old English law. The remuneration to the proprietor of a domain for the privilege of feeding swine under the oaks and beeches of his woods.
  • AEGROTO
    Lat. Being sick or indisposed. A term used in some of the older reports. "Holt Aegroto." 11 Mod. 179
  • AEGYLDE
    Uncompensated, unpaid for, unavenged. From the participle of exclusion, a, ae, or ex, (Goth.,) and gild, payment requital. Anc. Inst. Eng.
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