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...] about ARTIFICER
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ASCENT
Passage upwards; the transmission of an estate from the ancestor to the heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397. … [Read more...] about ASCENT
ARTIFICERS
Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily labor. Those who are masters of their arts. … [Read more...] about ARTIFICERS
ASCERTAIN
To fix; to render certain or definite; to estimate and determine; to clear of doubt or obscurity. Brown v. Lyd dy, 11 Hun, 456; Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 21 Pac. 288, 3 L. R. A. 690; Pughe v. Coleman (Tex. Civ. App.) 44 S. W. 578. … [Read more...] about ASCERTAIN
ARROGATION
civil law. Signifies nearly the same as adoption; the only difference between them is this, that adoption was of a person under full age but as arrogation required the person arrogated, sui juris, no one could be arrogated till he was of full age. … [Read more...] about ARROGATION