In the civil law. A form of proving a will, by the witnesses acknowledging before a magistrate their having sealed it. … [Read more...]

In English law. Ancient custom. An export duty on wool, wool felts, and leather, imposed during the reign of Edw. I. It was so called by way of distinction from an increased duty on the same articles, payable by foreign merchants, which was imposed at a later period of the same reign and was called "custuma nova." 1 Bl. Comm. 314. … [Read more...]

The summit or highest point of anything; the top; e. p., in mining law, "apex of a vein." See Larkin v. Upton, 144 U. S. 19, 12 Sup. Ct. 614, 36 L. Ed. 330; Stevens v. Williams, 23 Fed. Cas. 40; Dug gan v. Davey, 4 Dak. 110, 26 N. W. 887. Apex juris. The summit of the law; a legal subtlety; a nice or cunning point of law; close technicality; a rule of law carried to an extreme … [Read more...]

In England the statutes are divided into new and ancient statutes; since the time of memory; those from the time 1 R. I. to E. III., are called antiqua statuta … [Read more...]

In medical Jurisprudence. Loss of the faculty or power of articulate speech; a condition in which the patient, while retaining intelligence and understanding and with the organs of speech unimpaired, is unable to utter articulate words, or unable to vocalize the particular word which is in his mind and which he wishes to use, or utters words different from those he believes … [Read more...]