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  • ARBITRIOS
    In Spanish and Mexican law. Taxes imposed by municipalities on certain articles of merchandise, to defray the general expenses of government in default of revenues from "proprios," i. e., lands owned by the municipality, or the income of which was legally set apart for its support. Sometimes used in a More...
  • ARBITRIUM
    The decision of an arbiter, or arbitrator; an award; a judgment. Arbitrium est judicium. An award is a judgment. Jenk. Cent. 137. Arbitrium est judicium boni viri, secundum aequum et bonum. An award is the judgment of a good man, according to justice. 3 Bulst 64.
  • ARBOR
    Lat. A tree; a plant; something larger than an herb; a general term including vines, osiers, and even reeds. The mast of a ship. Brissonius. Timber. Ains-worth; Calvin.
  • ARBOR CONSANGUINITATIS
    A table, formed In the shape of a tree, showing the genealogy of a family. See the arbor civilis of the civilians and canonists. Hale, Com. Law, 335. Arbor dum erescit, lignum dun crescere nesoit. [That which is] a tree while it grows, [is] wood when it censes to grow. More...
  • ARBOR FINALIS
    In old English law. A boundary tree; a tree used for making a boundary line. Bract, fols. 167, 207b.
  • ARCA
    Lat. In the civil law. A chest or coffer; a place for keeping money. Dig. 30. 30, 6; Id. 32, 64. Brissonius.
  • ARCANA IMPERII
    State secrets. 1 Bl. Comm. 337.
  • ARCARIUS
    In civil and old English law. A treasurer; a keeper of public money. Cod. 10, 70, 15; Spelman.
  • ARCHAIONOMIA
    A collection of Saxon laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the Saxon language, with a Latin version by Lambard.
  • ARCHBISHOP
    In English ecclesiastical law. The chief of the clergy in his province, having supreme power under the king or queen in all ecclesiastical causes.
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