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ARSAE ET PENSATAE

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Burnt and weighed. A term formerly applied to money tested or assayed by fire and by weighing. … [Read more...]

ARSENALS

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Store houses for arms; dock yards, magazines, and other military stores. … [Read more...]

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT

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An instrument which, in cases of impeachment, is used, and performs the same office which an indictment does, in a common criminal case, is known by this name. These articles do not usually pursue the strict form and accuracy of an indictment., Wood. Lect. 40, p. 605; Foster, 389, 390; Com. Dig. Parliament, L 21. They are sometimes quite general in the form of the allegations, … [Read more...]

ARSER IN LE MAIN

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Burning in the hand. The punishment by burning or branding the left thumb of lay offenders who claimed and were allowed the benefit of clergy, so as to distinguish them in case they made a second claim of clergy. 5 Coke, 51; 4 Bl. Comm. 367. … [Read more...]

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