domestic relations. This is a corruption of the French word aieul, grandfather. … [Read more...] about AILE OR AYLE
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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
AGRICULTURE
The science or art of cultivating the ground, especially in fields or large areas, including the tillage of the soil, the planting of seeds, the raising and harvesting of crops, and the rearing of live stock. Dillard v. Webb, 55 Ala. 474. And see Bin zel v. Grogan, 67 Wis. 147, 29 N. W. 895; Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. (Tenn.) 510; Springer v. Lewis, 22 Pa. 191. A person … [Read more...] about AGRICULTURE
AIR
Abbreviation for financial term: Assumed Interest Rate. 1. That fluid transparent substance which surrounds our globe. 2. No property can be had in the air it belongs equally to all men, being indispensable to their existence. To poison or materially to change the air, to the annoyance of the public, is a nuisance. But this must be understood with this qualification, that no … [Read more...] about AIR