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  • APPOSER
    An officer in the exchequer, clothed with the duty of examining the sheriffs in respect of their accounts. Usually called the "foreign apposer." Termes de la Ley.
  • APPOSTILLE, OR APOSTILLE
    In French law, an addition or annotation made in the margin of a writing. Merl. Repert.
  • APPRAISE
    In practice. To fix or-set a price or value upon; to fix and state the true value of a thing, and, usually, in writing. Vincent v. German Ins. Co., 120 Iowa, 272, 94 N. W. 458.
  • APPRAISEMENT
    A just and true valuation of property. A valuation set upon property under Judicial or legislative authority. Cocheco Mfg. Co. v. Strafford, 51 N. H. 482.
  • APPRAISER
    A person appointed by competent authority to make an appraisement, to ascertain and state the true value of goods or real estate. —General appraisers. Appraisers appointed under an act of congress to afford aid and assistance to the collectors of customs in the appraisement of imported merchandise. Gibb v. Washington, More...
  • APPREHEND
    To take hold of, whether with the mind, and so to conceive, believe, fear, dread, (Trogdon v. State, 133 Ind. I, 32 N. E. 725;) or actually and bodily, and so to take a person on a criminal process; to seize: to arrest, (Hogan v. Stophlet 179 111. 150, 53 More...
  • APPREHENSIO
    Lat. In the civil and old English law. A taking hold of a person or thing; apprehension; the seizure or capture of a person. Calvin. One of the varieties or subordinate forms of occupatio, or the mode of acquiring title to things not belonging to any one.
  • APPREHENSION
    In practice. The seizure, taking, or arrest of a person on a criminal charge. The term "apprehension" is applied exclusively to criminal cases, and "arrest" to both criminal and civil cases. Cummings v. Clinton County, 181 Mo. 162, 79 S. W. 1127; Ralls County v. Stephens, KM Mo. App. 115, More...
  • APPRENDRE
    A fee or profit taken or received. Cowell.
  • APPRENTICE
    A person, usually a minor, bound in due form of law to a master, to learn from him his art, trade, or business, and to serve him during the time of his apprenticeship. 1 Bl. Comm. 426 ; 2 Kent, Comm. 211; 4 Term, 735. Altemus v. Ely, 3 Rawle More...
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