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Latin: Articles; items or heads. A term applied to some old English statutes, and occasionally to treatises. Articuli cleri. Articles of the clergy, (g. v.)Articuli de moneta. Articles concerning money, or the currency. The title of a statute passed in the twentieth year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 228; Crabb, Eng. Law, fAmer. Ed.) 167. Articuli Magnae Chartse. The … [Read more...]
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Persons with whom one is related in the ascending line; one's parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Those from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be. 2. Every one has two ascendants at the first degree, his father and mother; four at the second degree, his paternal … [Read more...]
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(Or more commonly in articulo mortis.) In the article of death; at the point of death. … [Read more...]
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In Spanish law. Ascendants; ascending heirs; heirs in the ascending line. Schm. Civil Law, 259. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
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...]