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  • ANNI ET TEMPORA
    Lat. Years and terms. An old title of the Year Books.
  • ANNI NUBILES
    A woman's marriageable years. The age at which a girl becomes by law fit for marriage; the age of twelve.
  • ANNICULUS
    A child a year old. Calvin. Anniculus treeentesimo sexagesimo-quinto die didtur, inoiplente plane non exaeto die, quia annum oiviliter non ad momenta temporum sed ad dies numeramur. We call a child a year old on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, when the day is fairly begun but not ended, More...
  • ANNIENTED
    Made null, abrogated, frustrated, or brought to nothing. Litt. c. 3, I 741.
  • ANNIVERSARY
    An annual day, in old ecclesiastical law, set apart in memory of a deceased person. Also called "year day" or "mind day." Spelman.
  • ANNO DOMINI
    In the year of the Lord. Commonly abbreviated A. D. The computation of time, according to the Christian era, dates from the birth of Christ. This phrase has become Anglicized by adoption so that an indictment or declaration containing the words "Anno Domini" is not demurrable as not being in More...
  • ANNONA
    Grain; food. An old English and civil law term to denote a yearly contribution by one person to the support of another.
  • ANNONAE CIVILES
    A species of yearly rents issuing out of certain lands, and payable to certain monasteries.
  • ANNOTATIO
    In the civil law. The sign-manual of the emperor; a rescript of the emperor, signed with his own hand. It is distinguished both from a rescript and pragmatic sanction, in Cod. 4, 59, 1.
  • ANNOTATION
    A remark, note, or commentary on some passage of a book, intended to illustrate its meaning. Webster. In the civil law. An imperial rescript signed by the emperor. The answers of the prince to questions put to him by private persons respecting some doubtful point of law. Summoning an absentee. More...
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