Collectively, this term designates the whole number of particulars, individuals, or separate items; distributively, it may be equivalent to "each" or "every." State v. Maine Cent. R. Co., 66 Me. 510; Sherburne v. Sischo, 143 Mass. 442, 9 N. E. 797. All and singular. A comprehensive term often employed in conveyances, wills, and the like, which includes the aggregate or whole … [Read more...] about ALL
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ALIENIGENA
One of foreign birth; an alien. 7 Coke, 31. … [Read more...] about ALIENIGENA
ALL FOURS
This is a metaphorical expression, to signify that a case agrees in all its circumstances with another case; it goes as it were upon its four legs, as an animal does. … [Read more...] about ALL FOURS
ALIENISM
The state, condition, or character of an alien. 2 Kent, Comm. 56, 64, 69. … [Read more...] about ALIENISM
ALLAY
An inferior metal, used with gold. and silver in making coin or public money. Originally, it was one of the allowances known by the name of remedy for errors, in the weight and purity of coins. The practice of making such allowances continued in all European mints after the reasons, upon which they were originally founded, had, in a great measure, ceased. In the imperfection of … [Read more...] about ALLAY