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  • AN ET JOUR
    Fr. Year and day; a year and a day.
  • AN, JOUR, ET WASTE
    In feudal law. Year, day, and waste. A forfeiture of the lands to the crown incurred by the felony of the tenant, after which time the land escheats to the lord. Termes de la Ley, 40.
  • ANACRISIS
    In the civil law. An investigation of truth, interrogation of witnesses, and inquiry made into any fact, especially by torture.
  • ANESTHESIA
    In medical jurisprudence. (1) Loss of sensation, or insensibility to pain, general or local, induced by the administration or application of certain drugs such as ether, nitrous oxide gas, or cocaine. (2) Defect of sensation, or more or less complete insensibility to pain, existing in various parts of the body More...
  • ANAGRAPH
    A register, inventory, or commentary.
  • ANALOGY
    In logic. Identity or similarity of proportion. Where there is no precedent in point, in cases on the same subject, lawyers have recourse to cases on a different subject-matter, but governed by the same general principle. This is reasoning by analogy. Wharton.
  • ANAPHRODISIA
    In medical jurisprudence. Impotentia caeundi; frigidity; incapacity for sexual intercourse existing in either man or woman, and in the latter case sometimes called "dyspareunia."
  • ANARCHIST
    One who professes and advocates the doctrines of anarchy, q. v. And see Cerveny v. Chicago Daily News Co., 139 111. 345, 28 N. E. 692, 13 L. R. A. 864; United States v. Williams, 194 U. S. 279, 24 Sup. Ct. 719, 48 L. Ed. 979.
  • ANARCHY
    The destruction of government ; lawlessness; the absence of all political government; by extension, confusion in government. See Spies v. People, 122 111. 1, 253, 12 N. E. 865, 3 Am. St. Rep. 320; Lewis v. Daily News Co., 81 Md. 466, 32 Atl. 246, 29 L. R. A. 59; More...
  • ANATHEMA
    An ecclesiastical punishment by which a person is separated from the body of the church, and forbidden all intercourse with the members of the same.
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