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  • AMOTIO
    In the civil law. A moving or taking away. "The slightest amotio is sufficient to constitute theft, if the animus furandi be clearly established." 1 Swint 205.
  • AMOTION
    A putting or turning out; dispossession of lands. Ouster is an amotion of possession. 3 Bl. Comm. 199, 208. A moving or carrying away; the wrongful taking of personal chattels. Archb. Civil PI. Introd. c 2, | 3. In corporation law. The act of removing an officer, or official representative, More...
  • AMOUNT
    The effect, substance, or result; the total or aggregate sum. Hilburn Railroad Co., 23 Mont 229, 58 Pac. 551; Connelly v. Telegraph Co., 100 Va. 51, 40 S. E. 618, 56 L. R. A. 663, 93 Am. St. Rep. 919. —Amount covered. In insurance. The amount that is insured, and More...
  • AMOVEAS MANUS
    Lat. That you remove your hands. After office found, the king was entitled to the things forfeited, either lands or personal property: the remedy for a person aggrieved was by "petition," or "monstrans de droit," or "traverses" to establish his superior right. Thereupon a writ issued, quod manus domini regis More...
  • AMPARO
    In Spanish-American law. A document issued to a claimant of land as a protection to him, until a survey can be ordered, and the title of possession issued by an authorized commissioner. Trimble v. Smither's Adm'r, 1 Tex. 790.
  • AMPLIATION
    In the civil law. A deferring of judgment until a cause be further examined. Calvin.; Cowell. An order for the rehearing of a cause on a day appointed, for the sake of more ample information. Halifax, Anal. b. 3, c. 13, n. 32. In French law. A duplicate of an More...
  • AMPLIUS
    In the Roman law. More; further; more time. A word which the praetor pronounced in cases where there was any obscurity in a cause, and the judices were uncertain whether to condemn or acquit; by which the case was deferred to a day named. Adam, Rom. Ant. 287.
  • AMPUTATION OF RIGHT HAND
    An ancient punishment for a blow given in a superior court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the court.
  • AMY
    See AMI; PROCHEIN AMY.
  • AN
    The English indefinite article. In statutes and other legal documents, it is equivalent to "one" or "any;" is seldom used to denote plurality. Kaufman v. Superior Court, 115 Cal. 152, 46 Pac. 904; People v. , Ogden, 8 App. Div. 464, 40 N. Y. Supp. 827.
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