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  • ALLOY
    An inferior or cheaper metal mixed with gold or silver in manufacturing or coining. As respects coining, the amount of alloy is fixed by law, and is used to increase the hardness and durability of the coin.
  • ALLOYNOUR
    L. Fr. One who conceals, steals, or carries off a thing privately. Britt. c. 17.
  • ALLUVIO MARIS
    Lat. In the civil and old English law. The washing up of the sea; formation of soil or land from the sea; maritime increase. Hale, Anal. s 8. "Alluvio maris is an increase of the land adjoining, by the projection of the sea, casting up and adding sand and slubb More...
  • ALLUVION
    That increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river, or to the shore of the sea, by the force of the water, as by a current or by waves, which is so gradual that no one can judge how much is added at each moment of More...
  • ALLY
    A nation which has entered into an alliance with another nation. 1 Kent, Comm. 69. A citizen or subject of one of two or more allied nations.
  • ALMANAC
    A publication, in which is recounted the days of the week, month, and year, both common and particular, distinguishing the fasts, feasts, terms, etc., from the common days by proper marks, pointing out also the several changes of the moon, tides, eclipses, etc.
  • ALMESFEOH
    In Saxon law. Alms-fee; alms-money. Otherwise called "Peterpence." Cowell.
  • ALMOIN
    Alms; a tenure of lands by divine service. See FRANKALMOIGNE.
  • ALMOXARIFAZGO
    In Spanish law. A general term, signifying both export and import duties, as well as excise.
  • ALMS
    Charitable donations. Any species of relief bestowed upon the poor. That which is given by public authority for the relief of the poor.
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