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  • ASSISTANT JUDGE
    A judge of the English court of general or quarter sessions in Middlesex. He differs from the other justices in being a barrister of ten years standing, and in being salaried. St. 7 & 8 Vict c. 71; 22 & 23 Vict c. 4; Pritch. Quar. Sess. 31.
  • ASSISUS
    Rented or farmed out for a specified assise; that is, a payment of a certain assessed rent in money or provisions.
  • ASSITHMENT
    Weregeld or compensation by a pecuniary mulct. Cowell.
  • ASSIZE
    In the practice of the criminal courts of Scotland, the fifteen men who decide on the conviction or, acquittal of an accused person are called the "assize," though in popular language, and even in statutes, they are called the "jury." Wharton. See ASSISE.
  • ASSIZES
    Sessions of the justices or commissioners of assise. See ASSISE.
  • ASSIZES DE JERUSALEM
    A code of feudal jurisprudence prepared by an assembly of barons and lords A. D. 1009, after the conquest of Jerusalem.
  • ASSOCIATE
    An officer in each of tbe English courts of common law, appointed by the chief judge of the court and holding his office during good behavior, whose duties were to superintend the entry of causes, to attend the sittings of nisi prius, and there receive and enter verdicts, and to More...
  • ASSOCIATION
    The act of a number of persons who unite or join together for some special purpose or business. The union of a company of persons for the transaction of designated affairs, or the attainment of some common object. An unincorporated society; a body of persons united and acting together without More...
  • ASSOCIE' EN NOM
    In French Law. In a socie'te' en commandite' an associd en nom is one who is liable for the engagements of the undertaking to the whole extent of his property. This expression arises from the fact that the names of the associes so liable figure in the firm-name or form More...
  • ASSOIL
    To absolve; acquit; to set free; to deliver from excommunication. St 1 Hen. IV. c. 7; Cowell.
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