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  • AGRI
    Arable lands in common fields.
  • AGRI LIMITATI
    In Roman law. Lands belonging to the state by right of conquest, and granted or sold in plots. Bandars, Just Inst (5th Ed.) 98. In modern civil law. Lands whose boundaries are strictly limited by the lines of government surveys. Hardin v. Jordan, 140 U. S. 371, 11 Sup. Ct More...
  • AGRICULTURAL LIEN
    A statutory lien in some states to secure money or supplies advanced to an agriculturist to be expended or employed in the making of a crop and attaching to that crop only. Clark v. Farrar, 74 N. C. 686, 690.
  • AGRICULTURE
    The science or art of cultivating the ground, especially in fields or large areas, including the tillage of the soil, the planting of seeds, the raising and harvesting of crops, and the rearing of live stock. Dillard v. Webb, 55 Ala. 474. And see Bin-zel v. Grogan, 67 Wis. 147, More...
  • AGUSADURA
    In ancient customs, a fee, due from the vassals to their lord for sharpening their plowing tackle.
  • AHTEID
    In old European law. A kind of oath among the Bavarians. Spelman. In Saxon law. One bound by oath, q. d. "oath-tied." From ath, oath, and tied. Id.
  • AID
    v. To support, help, or assist. This word must be distinguished from its synonym "encourage," the difference being that the former connotes active support and assistance, while the latter does not; and also from "abet" which last word imports necessary criminality in the act furthered, while "aid," standing alone, does More...
  • AID AND ABET
    In criminal law. That kind of connection with the commission of a crime which, at common law, rendered the person guilty as a principal in the second degree. It consisted in being present at the time and place, and doing some act to render aid to the actual perpetrator of More...
  • AID AND COMFORT
    Help; support; assistance; counsel; encouragement. As an element in the crime of treason, the giving of "aid and comfort" to the enemy may consist in a mere attempt. It is not essential to constitute the giving of aid and comfort that the enterprise commenced should be successful and actually render More...
  • AID OF THE KING
    The king's tenant prays this, when rent is demanded of him by others.
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