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AVUS

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In the civil law. A grandfather Inst. 3, 6, 1. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Grandfather. This term is used in making genealogical tables. … [Read more...]

AWAIT

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A term used in old statutes, signifying a lying in wait, or waylaying. … [Read more...]

AVOIR DU POIS

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comm. law. The name of a peculiar weight. This kind of weight is so named in distinction from the Troy weight. One pound avoir du pois contains 7000 grains Troy; that is, fourteen ounces, eleven pennyweights and sixteen grains Troy a pound avoir du pois contains sixteen ounces; and an ounce sixteen drachms. Thirty-two cubic feet of pure spring-water, at the temperature of … [Read more...]

AVOIRDUPOIS

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The name of a system of weights (sixteen ounces to the pound) used in weighing articles other than medicines, metals, and precious stones. … [Read more...]

AVERIA

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In old English law. This term was applied to working cattle, such as horses, oxen, etc. Averia carrucse. Beasts of the plow. Averiis captis in withernam. A writ granted to one whose cattle were unlawfully distrained by another and driven out of the county in which they were taken, so that they could not be replevied by the sheriff. Reg. Orig. 82. … [Read more...]

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