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  • APPELLO
    Lat. In the civil law. I appeal. The form of making an appeal apud acta. Dig. 49, 1, 2.
  • APPELLOR
    In old English law. A criminal who accuses his accomplices, or who challenges a jury.
  • APPENDAGE
    Something added as an accessory to or the subordinate part of another thing. State v. Fertig, 70 Iowa, 272, 30 N. W. 633; Hemme v. School Dist., 30 Kan. 377, 1 Pac. 104; State Treasurer v. Railroad Co., 28 M J. Law, 26.
  • APPENDANT
    A thing annexed to or belonging to another thing and passing with it; a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is more worthy; as an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in a church to a More...
  • APPENDITIA
    The appendages or appurtenances of an estate or house. Cowell.
  • APPENDIX
    A printed volume, used on an appeal to the English house of lords or privy council, containing the documents and other evidence presented in the inferior court and referred to in the cases made by the parties for the appeal. Answering in some respects to the "paper-book" or "case" in More...
  • APPENSURA
    Payment of money by weight instead of by count. Cowell.
  • APPERTAIN
    To belong to; to have relation to; to be appurtenant to. See APPURTENANT.
  • APPLICABLE
    When a constitution or court declares that the common law is in force in a particular state so far as it is applicable, it is meant that it must be applicable to the habits and conditions of the community, as well as in harmony with the genius, the spirit, and More...
  • APPLICARE
    Lat. In old English law. To fasten to; to moor (a vessel.) Anciently rendered, "to apply." Hale, de Jure Mar. Applicatio est vita regulse. Application is the life of a rule. 2 Bulst 79.
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