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  • ANCILLARY
    Aiding; auxiliary; attendant upon; subordinate; a proceeding attendant upon or which aids another proceeding considered as principal. Steele v. Insurance OD., 31 App. Div. 380, 52 N. Y. Supp. 373. —Ancillary administration. When a decedent leaves property in a foreign state, (a state other than that of his domicile.) administration More...
  • ANCIPITUS USUS
    Lat. In international law. Of doubtful use; the use of which is doubtful; that may be used for a civil or peaceful, as well as military or warlike, purpose. Gro. de'Jure B. lib. 3, c. 1, § 5, subd. 8; 1 Kent, Comm. 140.
  • ANDROCHIA
    In old English law. A dairy-woman. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 87.
  • ANDROGYNUS
    An hermaphrodite.
  • ANDROLEPSY
    The taking by one nation of the citizens or subjects of another, in order to compel the latter to do Justice to the former. Wolfflus, § 1164; Moll, de Jure Mar. 26.
  • ANECIUS
    L. Lat. Spelled also aesnecius, enitius, aeneas, eneyus. The eldest-born; the first-born; senior, as contrasted with the puis-ne, (younger.) Spelman.
  • ANGARIA
    A term used in the Roman law to denote a forced or compulsory service exacted by the government for public purposes ; as a forced rendition of labor or goods for the public service. See Dig. 50, 4, 18,4. In maritime law. A forced service, (onus,) imposed on a vessel More...
  • ANGEL
    An ancient English coin, of the value of ten shillings sterling. Jacob.
  • ANGER
    A strong passion of the mind excited by real or supposed injuries; not synonymous with "heat of passion," "malice," or "rage or resentment," because these are all terms of wider import and may include anger as an element or as an incipient stage. Chandler v. State, 141 Ind. 106, 39 More...
  • ANGILD
    In Saxon law. The single value of a man or other thing; a single weregild; the compensation of a thing according to its single value or estimation. Spelman. The double gild or compensation was called "twigild," the triple, "trigild," etc. Id.
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