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In medical jurisprudence. A morbid condition of swooning, suffocation, or suspended" animation, resulting in death if not relieved, produced by any serious interference with normal respiration (as, the inhalation of poisonous gases or too rarified air, choking, drowning, obstruction of the air passages, or paralysis of the respiratory muscles) with a consequent deficiency of … [Read more...] about ASPHYXIA

A feast or entertainment made at a funeral in the north of England; arvU bread is bread delivered to the poor at "funeral solemnities, and arvil, arval, or arfal, the burial or funeral rites. Cowell. … [Read more...] about ARVIL-SUPPER

med. jur. A temporary suspension of the motion of the heart and arteries; swooning, fainting. This term includes persons who have been asphyxiated by submersion or drowning; by breathing mephitic gas; by the effect of lightning; by the effect of cold; by heat; by suspension or strangulation. In a legal point of view it is always proper to ascertain whether the person who has … [Read more...] about ASPHYXY

Lat. In the Roman and civil law. A pound weight; and a coin originally weighing a pound, (called also "libra;") divided into twelve parts, called "uncice." Any integral sum, subject to division in certain proportions. Frequently applied in the civil law to inheritances; the whole inheritance being termed "as," and its several proportionate parts "sextans" uquadrans,n etc. … [Read more...] about AS

The removal of things from one place to another. The carrying away of goods; one of the circumstances requisite to constitute the offense of larceny. … [Read more...] about ASPORTATION