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ATTESTATION CLAUSE, wills and contracts. That clause wherein the witnesses certify that the instrument has been executed before them, and the manner o...

ATTAINDER, English criminal law. Attinctura, the stain or corruption of blood which arises from being condemned for any crime.2. Attainder by confessi...

ATTACHMENT, remedies. A writ issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, commanding the sheriff or other proper officer to seize any property; credit...

ASSURANCE, com. law. Insurance. (q. v.)ASSURANCE, conveyancing. This is called a common assurance. But the term assurances includes, in an enlarged se...

ASSIZE OF MORT D' ANCESTOR. The name, of an ancient writ, now obsolete. It might have been sued out by one whose father, mother, brother, &c.,...

ASSEVERATION. The proof which a man gives of the truth of what be says, by appealing to his conscience as a witness. It differs from an oath in this, ...

TO ASSESS.1. To rate or to fix the proportion which every person has to pay of any particular tax.2. To assess damages is to ascertain what damages ar...

ASPORTATION. The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another. Vide Carrying away; Taking.ASSASSIN, crim, law. An assa...

ARTICLES OF THE PEACE, Eng. practice. An instrument which is presented to a court of competent jurisdiction, in which the exhibitant shows the grievan...

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT. An instrument which, in cases of impeachment, (q. v.) is used, and performs the same office which an indictment does, in a co...