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| A | | the first letter of the English and most other alphabets, ... |
| A MENSA ET THORO | | from bed and board. A divorce a mensa et thoro, ... |
| A PRENDRE | | French, to take, to seize, in contracts, as profits a ... |
| A QUO | | A Latin phrases which signifies from which; example, in the ... |
| A RENDRE | | French, to render, to yield, contracts. Profits a rendre; under ... |
| A VINCULO MATRIMONII | | from the bond of marriage. A marriage may be dissolved ... |
| AB INITIO | | from the beginning.</P><P>2. When a man enters upon lands or ... |
| AB INTESTAT | | An heir, ab intestat, is one on whom the law ... |
| AB IRATO | | civil law. A Latin phrase, which signifies by a man ... |
| ABANDONMENT | | contracts. In the French law, the act by which a ... |
| ABANDONMENT | | contracts. In insurances the act by which the insured relinquishes ... |
| ABANDONMENT | | In maritime contracts in the civil law, principals are generally ... |
| ABANDONMENT | | lights. The relinquishment of a right; the giving up of ... |
| ABANDONMENT | | for torts, a term used in the civil law. By ... |
| ABANDONMENT | | malicious. The act of a hushand or wife, who leaves ... |
| ABATEMENT | | chancery practice, is a suspension of all proceedings in a ... |
| ABATEMENT | | contracts, is a reduction made by the creditor, for the ... |
| ABATEMENT | | merc. law. By this term is understood the deduction sometimes ... |
| ABATEMENT | | pleading, is the overthrow of an action in consequence of ... |
| ABATEMENT OF A FREEHOLD | | The entry of a stranger after the death of the ... |
| ABATEMENT OF LEGACIES | | is the reduction of legacies for the purpose of paying ... |
| ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES | | is the prostration or removal of a nuisance. 3 Bl.</P><P>2. ... |
| ABATOR | | is, 1st, he who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2, ... |
| ABATUDA | | obsolete. Any thing diminished; as, moneta abatuda, which is money ... |
| ABAVUS | | civil law, is the great grandfather, or fourth male ascendant. ... |
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