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AVOCAT

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Fr. Advocate; an advocate. … [Read more...]

AVOID

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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...]

AUTREFOIS

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Fr. At another time; formerly; before; heretofore. Autrefois acquit. In criminal law. Formerly acquitted. The name of a plea in bar to a criminal action, stating that the defendant has been once already indicted and tried for the same alleged offense and has been acquitted. Simco v. State, 9 Tex. App. 348; U. S. v. Gibert, 25 Fed. Cas. 1,294. Autrefois attaint. In criminal law. … [Read more...]

AVENTURE, OR ADVENTURE

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A mischance causing the death of a man, as where a person is suddenly drowned or killed by any accident, without felony. Co. Litt 391. … [Read more...]

AUTREFOIS ACQUIT

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crim. law, pleading. A plea made by a defendant, indicted for a crime or misdemeanor, that he has formerly been tried and acquitted of the same offence. 2. To be a bar, the acquittal must have been by trial, and by the verdict of a jury on a valid indictment. There must be an acquittal of the offence charged in law and in fact. 3. The Constitution of the U. S., Amend. Art. 5, … [Read more...]

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