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  • ARTISAN
    One skilled in some kind of mechanical craft or art; a skilled mechanic. O'Clair v. Hale, 25 Misc. Rep. 31, 54 N. Y. Supp. 386; Amazon Irr. Co. v. Briesen, 1 Kan. App. 758, 41 Pac. 1116.
  • ARURA
    An old English law term, signifying a day's work in plowing.
  • ARVIL-SUPPER
    A feast or entertainment made at a funeral in the north of England; arvil bread is bread delivered to the poor at funeral solemnities, and arril, arval, or arfal, the burial or funeral rites. Cowell.
  • AS
    Lat. In the Roman and civil law. A pound weight; and a coin originally weighing a pound, (called also "libra;") divided into twelve parts, called "unciae". Any integral sum, subject to division in certain proportions. Frequently applied in the civil law to inheritances; the whole inheritance being termed "as," and More...
  • AS AGAINST; AS BETWEEN
    These, words contrast the relative position of two persons, with a tacit reference to a different relationship between one of them and a third person. For instance, the temporary bailee of a chattel is entitled to it as between himself and a stranger, or as against a stranger; reference being More...
  • ASCEND
    To go up; to pass up or upwards ; to go or pass in the ascending line. 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397.
  • ASCENDANTS
    Persons with whom one is related in the ascending line; one's parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.
  • ASCENDIENTES
    In Spanish law. Ascendants; ascending heirs; heirs in the ascending line. Schm. Civil Law, 259.
  • ASCENT
    Passage upwards; the transmission of an estate from the ancestor to the heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397.
  • ASCERTAIN
    To fix; to render certain or definite; to estimate aud determine; to clear of doubt or obscurity. Brown v. Lyd-dy, 11 Hun, 456; Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 21 Pac. 288, 3 L. R. A. 690; Pughe v. Coleman (Tex. Civ. App.) 44 S. W. 578.
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