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  • AID PRAYER
    In English practice. A proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainder-man, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension of the action. 3 BL Comm. More...
  • AIDER BY VERDICT
    The healing or remission, by a verdict rendered, of a defect or error in pleading which might have been, objected to before verdict. The presumption of the proof of all facts necessary to the verdict as it stands, coming to the aid of a record in which such facts are More...
  • AIDS
    In feudal law, originally mere benevolences granted by a tenant to his lord,. In times of distress; but at length the lords claimed them as of right. They were principally three: (1) To ransom the lord's person, if taken prisoner; (2) to make the lord's eldest son and heir apparent More...
  • AIEL
    Aieul, Alio, Ayle. L. Ft. Agrandfather. A writ which lieth where the grandfather was seised in his demesne as of fee of any lands or tenements in fee-simple the day that he died, and a stranger abateth or entereth the same day and dispossesseth the heir. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 222: More...
  • AIELESSE
    A Norman French term signifying "grandmother." Kelham.
  • AINESSE
    In French feudal law. The right or privilege of the eldest born; primogeniture; esnecy. Guyot, Inst. Feud. c. 17.
  • AIR
    That fluid transparent substance which surrounds our globe. Bank v. Kennett, 101 Mo. App. 370, 74 S. W. 474,
  • AIRE
    In old Scotch law. The court of the justices itinerant, corresponding with the English eyre, (q. v.) Skene de Verb. Sign, voc Iter.
  • AIRT AND PAIRT
    In old Scotch criminal law. Accessary; contriver and partner. 1 Pita Crim. Tr. pt 1, p. 133; 3 How. State Tr. 601. Now written art and part, (q. v.)
  • AIR-WAY
    In English law. A passage for the admission of air into a mine. To maliciously fill up, obstruct, or damage, with intent to destroy, obstruct, or render useless the air-way to any mine, is a felony punishable by penal servitude or Imprisonment at the discretion of the court. 24 & More...
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