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  • APTA VIRO
    Fit for a husband; marriageable; a woman who has reached marriageable years.
  • APUD ACTA
    Among the acts; among the recorded proceedings. In the civil law, this phrase is applied to appeals taken orally, in the presence of the judge, at the time of judgment or sentence.
  • AQUA
    In the civil and old English law. Water; sometimes a stream or water-course. —Aqua sestiva. In Roman law. Summer water; water that was used in summer only. Dig. 43, 20, 1, 3, 4.—Aqua currens. Running water.—Aqua dulcis, or frisca. Fresh water. Reg. Orig. 97; Bract fols. 117, 135.— Aqua fontanea. More...
  • AQUAE DUCTUS
    In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the right to carry water by means of pipes or conduits over or through the estate of another. Dig. 8, 3, 1; Inst. 2, 3.
  • AQUAE HAUSTUS
    In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the right to draw water from the fountain, pool, or spring of another. Inst. 2, 3, 2; Dig. 8, 3, 1, 1.
  • AQUA IMMITTENDAE
    A civil law easement or servitude, consisting in the right of one whose house is surrounded with other buildings to cast waste water upon the adjacent roofs or yards. Similar to the common law easement of drip. Bellows v. Sackett, 15 Barb. (N. Y.) 96.
  • AQUAGIUM
    A canal, ditch, or watercourse running through marshy grounds. A mark or gauge placed in or on the banks of a running stream, to indicate the height of the water, was called "aquagaugium." Spelman.
  • AQUATIC RIGHTS.
    Rights which individuals have to the use of the sea and rivers, for the purpose of fishing and navigation, and also to the soil in the sea and rivers.
  • ARABANT
    They plowed. A term of feudal law, applied to those who held by the tenure of plowing and tilling the lord's lands within the manor. Cowell.
  • ARAHO
    In feudal law. To make oath in the church or some other holy place. All oaths were made in the church upon the relics of saints, according to the Ripuarian laws. Cowell; Spelman.
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