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ARTICULATELY

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Article by article; by distinct clauses or articles; by separate propositions. … [Read more...]

ASCEND

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To go up; to pass up or upwards; to go or pass in the ascending line. 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397. … [Read more...]

ARTICULI

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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...]

ASCENDANTS

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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...]

ARTICULO MORTIS

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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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