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ARTICULO MORTIS

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(Or more commonly in articulo mortis.) In the article of death; at the point of death. … [Read more...]

ASCENDIENTES

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In Spanish law. Ascendants; ascending heirs; heirs in the ascending line. Schm. Civil Law, 259. … [Read more...]

ARTIFICER

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One who buys goods in order to reduce them, by his own art or industry, into other forms, and then to sell them. Lansdale v. Brashear, 3 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 335. One who is actually and personally engaged or employed to do work of a mechanical or physical character, not including one who takes contracts for labor to be performed by others. Ingram v. Barnes, 7 El. & Bl. 135; … [Read more...]

ASCENT

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Passage upwards; the transmission of an estate from the ancestor to the heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397. … [Read more...]

ARTIFICERS

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Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily labor. Those who are masters of their arts. … [Read more...]

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