Words used in a technical sense; words scientifically fit to carry the sense assigned them. … [Read more...]
ARTICULATE ADJUDICATION
A term used in Scotch, law in cases where there is more than the debt due to the adjudging creditor, when it is usual to accumulate each debt by itself, so that any error that may arise in ascertaining one of the debts need not reach to all the rest. Where the creditor holds several distinct debts, a separate adjudication for each claim is thus called. … [Read more...]
ARRIAGE AND CARRIAGE
In English and Scotch law. Indefinite services formerly demandable from tenants, but prohibited by statute, (20 Geo. II. c. 50, … [Read more...]
ARTHEL, ARDHEL, or ARDDELIO
To avouch; as if a man were taken with stolen goods in his possession he was allowed a lawful arthel, i.e., vouchee, to clear him of the felony; but provision was made against it by 28 Hen. VIII. c. 6. Blount … [Read more...]
ARRIER BAN
In feudal law. A second summons to join the lord, addressed to those who had neglected the first. A summons of the inferiors or vassals of the lord. Spelman. ARRIERE FIEF, or FEE. In feudal law. A fief or fee dependent on a superior one; an inferior fief granted by a vassal of the king, out of the fief held by him. Mon tesq. Esprit des Lois, liv. 31, cc. 26, 32. … [Read more...]