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View; object; possibility. Implies the existence of alternatives. Used in the phrases "bill with a double aspect" and "contingency with a double aspect." … [Read more...] about ASPECT

An old English law term, signifying a day's work in plowing. … [Read more...] about ARTTRA

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