In maritime law. An insurer, (aversor periculi.) Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 2, c. 5, … [Read more...]

In Scotch law. An old term, used indiscriminately to signify a lease or feu right Bell; Ersk. Inst. 2, 6, 20. … [Read more...]

In old Welsh law. An oath made by compurgators. Brown. … [Read more...]

The gathering of people in the same place, the right of assembly, the right to gather, typically for the purpose of carrying on a political purpose. The union of a number of persons in the same place. There are several kinds of assemblies. 2. Political assemblies, or those authorized by the constitution and laws; for example, the general assembly, which includes the senate and … [Read more...]

In English law. The offense committed in the forest, by pulling up the trees by the roots that are thickets and coverts for deer, and making the ground plain as arable land. It differs from waste, in that waste is the cutting down of coverts which may grow again, whereas assart is the plucking them up by the roots and utterly destroying them, so that they can never afterward … [Read more...]