"Ad literaturam po nei'e" means to put children to school. This liberty was anciently denied to those parents who were servile tenants, without the lord's consent. The prohibition against the education of sons arose from the fear that the son, being bred to letters, might enter into holy orders, and so stop or divert the services which he might otherwise do as heir to his … [Read more...]

Ft. A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimetre, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints. Webster. … [Read more...]

In Roman law. The contract of nomen, which was constituted by writing, (scripturd.) It was of two kinds, viz.: (1) A re in personam, when a transaction was transferred from the daybook (adversaria) into the ledger (codex) in the form of a debt under the name or heading of the purchaser or debtor, (nomen;) and (2) a persond in personam, where a debt already standing under one … [Read more...]

Trash or garbage or other solid waste that has been disposed of improperly and usually carelessly within a public area, for example, an empty cigarette box on the street. … [Read more...]

A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation; usually spoken of active parties, not of nominal ones. … [Read more...]