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  • APPROVED INDORSED NOTES
    Notes indorsed by another person than the maker, for additional security.
  • APPROVEMENT
    By the common law, approvement is said to be a species of confession, and incident to the arraignment of a prisoner indicted for treason or felony, who confesses the fact before plea pleaded, and appeals or accuses others, his accomplices in the same crime, in order to obtain his own More...
  • APPROVER
    L. Fr. To approve or prove; to vouch. Kelham.
  • APPROVER
    n. In real property law. Approvement; improvement. "There can be no approver in derogation of a right of common of turbary." 1 Taunt 435. In criminal law. An accomplice in crime who accuses others of the same offense, and Is admitted as a witness at the discretion of the court More...
  • APPRUARE
    To take to one's use or profit Cowell.
  • APPULSUS
    In the civil law. A driving to, as of cattle to water. Dig. 8, 3, 1, 1.
  • APPURTENANCE
    That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; something annexed to another thing more worthy as principal, and which passes as incident to it as a right of way or other easement to land; an out-house, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage, Meek v. Breckenrldge, More...
  • APPURTENANT
    Belonging to; accessory or incident to; adjunct appended, or annexed to; answering to accessorium in the civil law. 2 Steph. Comm. 30 note. A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant to land when it is by right used with the land for its benefit, as in the case More...
  • APROVECHAMIENTO
    In Spanish law. Approvement or improvement and enjoyment of public lands. As applied to pueblo lands, it has particular reference to the commons, and includes not only the actual enjoyment of them but a right to such enjoyment Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 530, 566.
  • APT
    Fit; suitable; appropriate. - Apt time. Apt time sometimes depends upon lapse of time; as, where a thing is required to be done at the first term, or within a given time, it cannot be done afterwards. But the phrase more usually refers to the order of proceedings, as fit More...
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