Legal Term Dictionary

Search our free database of thousands of legal terms. The easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms.This dictionary is from the early 20th century and is not to be construed as legal advice.

Search
  • AETATE PROBANDA
    A writ which inquired whether the king's tenant holding in chief by chivalry was of full age to receive his lands. It was directed to the escheater of the county. Now disused.
  • AETHELING
    In Saxon law. A noble; generally a prince of the blood.
  • AFFAIRS
    A person's concerns in trade or property; business. Montgomery v. Com., 91 Pa. 133; Bragaw v. Bolles, 51 N. J. Eq. 84, 25 Atl. 947.
  • AFFECT
    To act upon; influence; change; enlarge or abridge. This word is often used in the sense of acting injuriously upon persons and things. Ryan v. Carter, 93 U. S. 84, 23 L. Ed. 807; Tyler v. Wells, 2 Mo. App. 538; Holland v. Dickerson, 41 Iowa, 373; United States v. More...
  • AFFECTION
    The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Crabb, Teehnol. Dict.
  • AFFECTUS
    Disposition; intention, impulse or affection of the mind. One of the causes for a challenge of a juror is propter affectum, on account of a suspicion of bias or favor. 3 Bl. Comm. 363; Co. Litt. 156. Affectus punitur licet non sequatur effectus. The intention is punished although the intended More...
  • AFFEER
    To assess, liquidate, appraise, fix in amount. To affeer an amercement. To establish the amount which one amerced in a court-leet should pay. To affeer an account. To confirm it on oath in the exchequer. Cowell; Blount; Spelman.
  • AFFEERORS
    Persons who, in court-leets, upon oath, settle and moderate the fines and amercements imposed on those who have committed offenses arbitrarily punishable, or that have no express penalty appointed by statute. They are also appointed to moderate fines, etc, in courts-baron. Cowell
  • AFFERMER
    L. Fr. To let to farm. Also to make sure, to establish or confirm. Kelham.
  • AFFIANCE
    A plighting of troth between man and woman. Litt | 39. An agreement by which a man or woman promise each other that they will marry together. Poth. TraitS du Mar. n. 24.
Showing 540 of 14636