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  • AFFIDARE
    To swear faith to; to pledge one's faith or do fealty by making oath. Cowell.
  • AFFIDARI
    To be mustered and enrolled for soldiers upon an oath of fidelity.
  • AFFIDATIO
    A swearing of the oath of fidelity or of fealty to one's lord, under whose protection the quasi-vassal has voluntarily come. Brown.
  • AFFIDATIO DOMINORUM
    An oath taken by the lords in parliament.
  • AFFIDATUS
    One who is not a vassal, but who for the sake of protection has connected himself with one more powerful. Spelman; 2 BL Comm. 46.
  • AFFIDAVIT
    A written or printed declaration or statement of facts, made voluntarily, and confirmed by the oath or affirmation of the party making it taken before an officer having authority to administer such oath. Cox v. Stem, 170 111. 442, 48 N. EL 906, 62 Am. St Rep. 385; Hays v. More...
  • AFFILARE
    L. Lat. To file or affile. Affiletur, let it be filed. 8 Coke, 160. De recordo affilatum, afilled of record. 2 Ld. Raym. 1476
  • AFFILE
    A term employed in old practice, signifying to put on file. 2 Maule & S. 202. In modern usage it is contracted to file.
  • AFFILIATION
    The fixing any one with the paternity of a bastard child, and the obligation to maintain it. In French law. A species of adoption which exists by custom in some parts of France. The person affiliated succeeded equally with other heirs to the property acquired by the deceased to whom More...
  • AFFINAGE
    A refining of metals. Blount.
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