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  • APOSTOLI
    In the civil law. Certificates of the inferior judge from whom a cause is removed, directed to the superior. Dig. 49, 6. See APOSTLES.
  • APOSTOLUS
    A messenger; an ambassador, legate, or nuncio. Spelman.
  • APOTHECA
    In the civil law. A repository; a place of deposit, as of wine, oil, books, etc. Calvin.
  • APOTHECARY
    Any person who keeps a shop or building where medicines are compounded or prepared according to prescriptions of physicians, or where medicines are sold. Act Cong. July 13, 1866, c. 184, § 9, 14 Stat. 119; Woodward v. Ball, 6 Car. & P. 577; Westmoreland v. Bragg, 2 Hill (S. More...
  • APPARATOR
    A furnisher or provider. Formerly the sheriff, in England, had charge of certain county affairs and disbursements, in which capacity he was called "apparator comitatus" and received therefor a considerable emolument. Cowell.
  • APPARENT
    That which is obvious, evident, or manifest; what appears, or has been made manifest in respect to facts involved in an appeal or writ of error, that which is stated in the record. —Apparent danger, as used with reference to the doctrine of self-defense in homicide, means such overt actual More...
  • APPARITIO
    In old practice. Appearance; an appearance. Apparitio in judicio, an appearance in court. Bract fol. 344. Post apparitionem, after appearance. Fleta, Ub. 6, c. 10, § 25.
  • APPARITOR
    An officer or messenger employed to serve the process of the spiritual courts in England and summon offenders. Cowell. In the civil law. An officer who waited upon a magistrate or superior officer, and executed his commands. Calvin; Cod. 12, 53-57.
  • APPARLEMENT
    In old English law. Resemblance; likelihood; as apparlement of war. St. 2 Rich. II. st. 1, c. 6; Cowell.
  • APPARURA
    In old English law the apparura were furniture, implements, tackle, or apparel. Carucarum apparura, plow-tackle. Cowell.
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