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  • AFFRECTAMENTUM
    Affreightment; a contract for the hiTe of a vessel. From the Fr. fret, which, according to Cowell, meant tons or tonnage.
  • AFFREIGHTMENT
    A contract of affreightment is a contract with a ship-owner to hire his ship, or part of it, for the carriage of goods. Such a contract generally takes the form either of a charter-party or of a bill of lading. Maude & P. Mer. Shipp. 227; Smith, Merc. Law, 205; More...
  • AFFRETEMENT
    Fr. In French law. The hiring of a vessel; affreightment. Called also nolissement. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit 2, art. 2; Id. liv. 3, tit 1, art 1.
  • AFFRI
    In old English law. Plow cattle, bullocks or plow horses. Affri, or afri carucea; beasts of the plow. Spelman.
  • AFORESAID
    Before, or already said, mentioned, or recited; premised. Plowd 67. Foresaid is used in Scotch law. Although the words "preceding" and "aforesaid" generally mean next before, and "following" means next after, yet a different signification will be given to them if required by the context and the facts of the More...
  • AFORETHOUGHT
    In criminal law. Deliberate; planned; premeditated; prepense. State v. Peo, 9 Houst. (Del.) 488, 33 Atl. 257; Edwards v. State, 25 Ark. 444; People v. Ah Choy, 1 Idaho, 317; State v. Fiske, 63 Conn. 388, 28 Atl. 572.
  • AFTER
    Later, succeeding, subsequent to, inferior in point of time or of priority or preference. —After-acquired. Acquired after a particular date or event. Thus, a judgment is a lien on after-acquired realty, i. e., land acquired by the debtor after entry of the judgment Hughes v. Hughes, 152 Pa, 590, 26 More...
  • AFTERMATH
    A second crop of grass mown in the same season; also the right to take such second crop. See 1 Chit. Gen. Pr. 181.
  • AFTERNOON
    This word has two senses. It may mean the whole time from noon to midnight; or it may mean the earlier part of that time, as distinguished from the evening. When used in a statute its meaning must be determined by the context and the circumstances of the subject-matter. Reg. More...
  • AGAINST
    Adverse to; contrary; opposed to; without the consent of; in contact with. State v. Metzger, 26 Kan. 395; James v. Bank. 12 R. I. 400; Seabright v. Seabright 28 W. Va, 465; State v. Prather, 54 Ind. 03. —Against the form of the statute. When the act complained of is More...
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