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ALL

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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...]

ALIENIGENA

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One of foreign birth; an alien. 7 Coke, 31. … [Read more...]

ALL FOURS

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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...]

ALEA

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Lat. In the civil law. A game of chance or hazard. Dig. 11, 5, 1. See Cod. 3, 43. The chance of gain or loss in a eon tract. … [Read more...]

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