Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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AFFIDATIO DOMINOBUM

AFFECTION. The making over, pawn ing, or mortgaging a thing to assure the pay ment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Crabb. Teohnol. Diet. AFFECTUS. Disposition; intention, Im pulse or affection of the mind. One of the causes for a challenge of a juror is propter affectum, on account of a suspicion of bias or favor. 3 Bl. Comm. 363; Co. Litt. 156. Affectus punitur licet non sequatur effectus. The intention is punished although the intended result does not follow. 9 Coke, 55. AFFEEE. To assess, liquidate, appraise, fix in amount. To affeer an amercement. To establish the amount which one amerced in a court-leet should pay. To affeer an account. To confirm it on oath in the exchequer. Co well; Blount; Speltnan. AFFEEEOES. Persons who, in court leets, upon oath, settle and moderate the fines and amercements imposed on those who have committed offenses arbitrarily punishable, or that have no express penalty appointed by statute. They are also appointed to moderate fines, etc., in courts-baron. Co well. AFFEEMEE. L. Fr. To let to farm. Also to make sure, to establish or confirm. Kelham. AFFIANCE. A plighting of troth be tween man and woman. litt. § 39. An agreement by which a man and woman prom ise each other that they will marry togeth er. Poth. Traite" du Mar. n. 24. AFFIANT. The person who makes and subset ibes an affidavit. The word is used* in this sense, interchangeably with "depo nent." But the latter term should be re served as the designation of one who makes a deposition. AFFIDAEE. To swear faith to; to pledge one's faith or do fealty by making oath. Cowell. AFFIDAEI. To be mustered and en rolled for soldiers upon an oath of fidelity. AFFIDATIO. A swearing of the oath of fidelity or of fealty to one's lord, under whose protection the quasi-vassal has voluntarily come. Brown. AFFIDATIO DOMHTORUM. Anoath taken by the lords in parliament.

ers owe to us, (quod alii nobis debent.) Dig. 50, 16, 213. In old English law. Es necy; the right or privilege of the eldest born. Spelman; Glanv. lib. 7, c. 3; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 66, §§ 5, 6. ^ISTIMATIO OAPITIS. In Saxon law. The estimation or valuation of the head; the price or value of a man. By the laws of Athelstan, the life of every man, not except ing that of the king himself, was estimated at a certain price, which was called the were, or cestimatio capitis. Crabb, Eng. Law, c. 4. iEstimatio prseteriti delicti ex post remo facto nunquam crescit. The weight of a past offense is never increased by a sub sequent fact. Bacon. .S3TAS INFANTLffi! PEOXIMA. In the civil law. The age next to infancy; the fiist half of the period of childhood, (pueri tia,) extending from seven years to ten and a half. Inst. 3, 20, 9; 4 BI. Comtn. 22. .2ETAS LEGITIMA. In the civil law. Lawful age; the age of twenty-five. Dig. 3, 5, 27, pr.; Id. 26. 2, 32, 2; Id. 27, 7,1, pr. JETAS PEEFECTA. In the civil law, Complete age; full age; the age of twenty five. Dig. 4, 4, 32; Id. 22, 3, 25, 1. -2ETAS PEIMA. In the civil law. The first age; infancy, (infantia.) Cod. 6, 61, 8,3. 2ETAS PUBEETATI PEOXIMA. In the civil law. The age next to puberty; the last half of the period of childhood, (puentia,) extending from ten years and a half to four teen. Inst. 3, 20, 9; 4 Bl. Comm. 22. .ESTATE PEOBANDA. A writ which inquired whether the king's tenant holding in chief by chivalry was of full age to receive his lands. It was directed to the escheater of the county. Now disused. JETHELING. In Saxon law. A noble; generally a prince of the blood. AFFAIES. A person's concerns in trade or property; business. AFFECT. This word is often used in the Bense of acting injuriously upon persons and things. 93 U. S. 84. Affeetio tua nomen Imponit operi too. Your disposition (or intention) gives name (or character) to your work or act. Bract, fol. 26, 1015.

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