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ALTERATION. An act done upon an instrument in writing by a party entitled under it, without the consent of the other party, by which its meaning or la...

ALLUVION. The insensible increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river by the force of the water, as by a current or by waves. It is a part of t...

ALLOCATION, Eng. law. An allowance upon account in the Exchequer; or rather, placing or adding to a thing. Eucy. Lond.ALLOCATIONE FACIENDA. Eng. law. ...

ALLEGIANCE. The tie which binds the citizen to the government, in return for the protection which the government affords him.2. It is natural, acquire...

ALITER, otherwise. This term is frequently used to point out a difference between two decisions; as, a point of law has been decided in a particular w...

ALIENATION, med. jur. The term alienation or mental alienation is a generic expression to express the different kinds of aberrations of the human unde...

ALIEN, persons. One born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, who has not since been naturalized under their constitution and laws. To this t...

ALER SANS JOUR, or aller sans jour, in practice. A French phrase which means go without day; and is used to signify that the case has been finally dis...

ALBA FIRMA. Eng. law. When quit rents were reserved payable in silver or white money, they wero called white rents, or blanch farms reditus albi. When...

AJUTAGE. A conical tube, used in drawing water through an aperture, by the use of which the quantity of water drawn is much increased. When a privileg...