Pleading. An affirmative allegation, implying some negative, in favor of the adverse party, for example, if to an action of assumpsit, which is barred by the act of limitations of six years, the defendant pleads that be did not undertake within ten years; a replication that he did undertake within ten years, would be an affirmative pregnant; since it would impliedly admit that … [Read more...]

To assess, liquidate, appraise, fix In amount. To affeer an amercement. To establish the amount which one amerced in a court leet should pay. To affeer an account. To confirm it on oath in the exchequer. Cowell; Blount; Spelman. … [Read more...]

The fixing any one with the paternity of a bastard child, and the obligation to maintain it. In French, law. A species of adoption which exists by custom in some parts of France. The person affiliated succeeded equally with other heirs to the property acquired by the deceased to whom he had been affiliated, but not to that which he inherited. Bouvier. In ecclesiastical law. A … [Read more...]

Proof that conclusively establishes some fact. … [Read more...]

English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet. … [Read more...]