A Norman French term signifying "grandmother." Kelham. … [Read more...] about AIELESSE
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AGRI LIMITATI
In Roman law. Lands belonging to the state by right of conquest, and granted or sold in plots. Sandars, Just. Inst (5th Ed.) 98. In modern civil law. Lands whose boundaries are strictly limited by the lines of government surveys. Hardin v. Jordan, 140 U. S. 371, 11 Sup. Ct 808, 35 L. Ed. 428. … [Read more...] about AGRI LIMITATI
AILE OR AYLE
domestic relations. This is a corruption of the French word aieul, grandfather. … [Read more...] about AILE OR AYLE
AGRICULTURAL LIEN
A statutory lien in some states to secure money or supplies advanced to an agriculturist to be expended or employed in the making of a crop and attaching to that crop only. Clark v. Farrar, 74 N. C. 686, 690. … [Read more...] about AGRICULTURAL LIEN
AINESSE
In French feudal law. The right or privilege of the eldest born; primogeniture; esnecy. Guyot, Inst Feud. c. 17. … [Read more...] about AINESSE