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ARMISTICE

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A suspending or cessation of hostilities between belligerent nations or forces for a considerable time. … [Read more...]

ARGUMENT AB INCONVENIENTI

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An argument arising from the inconvenience which the proposed construction of the law would create. … [Read more...]

ARMORIAL BEARINGS

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In English law. A device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from ancestry. A r m o r u m appellatione, non solum scuta et gladil et galeae, sed et fustes ei lapides continentur. Under the name of arms are included, not only shields … [Read more...]

ARGUMENT LIST

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A list of cases put down for the argument of some point of law. … [Read more...]

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