One skilled in some kind of mechanical craft or art; a skilled mechanic. O'Clair v. Hale, 25 Misc. Rep. 31, 54 N. Y. Supp. 386; Amazon Irr. Co. v. Briesen, 1 Kan. App. 758, 41 Pac. 1116. … [Read more...] about ARTISAN
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ASPECT
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
ARTTRA
An old English law term, signifying a day's work in plowing. … [Read more...] about ARTTRA
ASPHYXIA
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
ARSURA
The trial of money by heating It after it was coined. The loss of weight occasioned by this process. A pound was said to burn so many pence (tot ardere denarios) as it lost by the fire. Spelman. The term is now obsolete. … [Read more...] about ARSURA