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  • ACCROACH
    To encroach; to exercise power without due authority. To attempt to exercise royal power. 4 Bl. Comm. 76. A knight who forcibly assaulted and detained one of the king's subjects till he paid him a sum of money was held to have committed treason, on the ground of accroachment. 1 More...
  • ACCROCHER
    Fr. In French law. To delay; retard; put off. Accrocher un proces, to stay the proceedings in a suit.
  • ACCRUE
    To grow to; to be added to; to attach itself to; as a subordinate or accessory claim or demand arises out of, and is joined to, its principal; thus, costs accrue to a judgment and interest to the principal debt. The term is also used of independent or original demands, More...
  • ACCRUER, CLAUSE OF
    An express clause, frequently occurring in the case of gifts by deed or will to persons as tenants in common, providing that upon the death of one or more of the beneficiaries his or their shares shall go to the survivor or survivors. Brown. The share of the decedent is More...
  • ACCRUING
    Inchoate; in process of maturing. That which will or may, at a future time, ripen into a vested right, an available demand, or an existing cause of action. Cochran v. Taylor, 13 Ohio St 382. Accruing costs. Costs and expenses incurred after judgment. Accruing interest. Running or accumulating interest, as More...
  • ACCT.
    An abbreviation for "account" of such universal and immemorial use that the courts will take judicial notice of its meaning. Heaton v. Ainley, 108 Iowa, 112, 78 N. W. 798.
  • ACCUMULATED SURPLUS
    In statutes relative to the taxation of corporations,this term refers to the fund which the company has in excess of its capital and liabilities. Trenton Iron Co. v., Yard, 42 N. J. Law, 357; People's F. Ins. Co. v. Parker, 35 N. J. Law, 575; Mutual Ben. L. Ins. Co. More...
  • ACCUMULATIONS
    When an executor or other trustee masses the rents, dividends, and other income which he receives, treats it as a capital, invests it, makes a new capital of the income derived therefrom, invests that, and so on, he is said to accumulate the fund, and the capital and accrued income More...
  • ACCUMULATIVE
    That which accumulates, or is heaped up; additional. Said of several things heaped together, or of one thing added to another. Accumulative judgment. Where a person has already been convicted and sentenced, and a second or additional judgment is passed against him, the execution of which is postponed until the More...
  • ACCUSATION
    A formal charge against a person, to the effect that he is guilty of a punishable offense, laid before a court or magistrate having jurisdiction to inquire into the alleged crime. See ACCUSE. Accusator post rationabile tempus non est andiendns, nisi so bene do omissione excuanverit. Moore, 817. An accuser More...
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