Fr. Advocate; an advocate. … [Read more...]
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TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Fr. Advocate; an advocate. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
To annul; cancel; make void; to destroy the efficacy of anything. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition 1. To annul or to cancel. To void. 2. To sidestep. … [Read more...]
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A making void, or of no effect; annulling, cancelling; escaping or evading. In English ecclesiastical law. The term describes the condition of a benefice when it has no incumbent. In parliamentary language, avoidance of a decision signifies evading or superseding a question, or escaping the coming to a decision upon a pending question. Holthouse. In pleading. The allegation or … [Read more...]
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comm. law. The name of a peculiar weight. This kind of weight is so named in distinction from the Troy weight. One pound avoir du pois contains 7000 grains Troy; that is, fourteen ounces, eleven pennyweights and sixteen grains Troy a pound avoir du pois contains sixteen ounces; and an ounce sixteen drachms. Thirty-two cubic feet of pure spring-water, at the temperature of … [Read more...]
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The name of a system of weights (sixteen ounces to the pound) used in weighing articles other than medicines, metals, and precious stones. … [Read more...]