Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

ALTIUS TOLLENDI

AMBIGUITAS

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AMBACTUS. A messenger; a servant sent about; one whose services his master hired out. Spelman. AMBASCIATOR. A person sent about in the service of another; a person sent on a service. A word of frequent occurrence in the writers of the middle ages. Spelman. AMBASSADOR. In international law. A public officer, clothed with high diplomatic powers, commissioned by a sovereign prince or state to transact the international business of his government at the court of the country to which he is sent. Ambassador is the commissioner who rep resents one country in the seat of govern ment of another. He is a public minister, which, usually, a consul is not. Brown. Ambassador is a person sent by one sov ereign to another, with authority, by letters of credence, to treat on affairs of state. Ja cob. The United States have always been rep resented by ministers plenipotentiary, never having sent a person of the rank of an am bassador, in the diplomatic sense. 1 Kent, Comm. 39, note. AMBER, or AMBRA. In old English law. A measure of four bushels. AMBIDEXTER. Skillful with both hands; one who plays on both sides. Applied anciently to an attorney who took pay from both sides, and subsequently to a juror guilty of the same offense. Cowell. Ambigua responsio contra proferen tem est accipie da. An ambiguous an swer is to be taken against (is not to be con strued in favor of) him who offers it. 10 Coke, 59. Ambiguis casibus semper prsesumitur pro rege. In doubtful cases, the presump tion always is in behalf of the crown. Lofft, Append. 248. AMBIGUITAS. Lat. From ambiguus, doubtful, uncertain, obscure. Ambiguity; uncertainty of meaning. Ambiguitas verboruxn latens verifioa tione suppletur; nam quod ex facto oritur ambiguum veriflcatione facti tol litur. A latent ambiguity in the language may be removed by evidence; for whatever ambiguity arises from an extrinsic fact may be explained by extrinsic evidence. Bao. Max. reg. 23.

Ing beyond a certain height. Dig. 8, 2, 4; Sandars, Just. Inst. 119. ALTIUS TOLLENDI. In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the light, to him who is entitled to it, to build his house as high as he may think proper. In general, however, every one enjoys this privilege, un less he is restrained by some contrary title. Sandars, Just. Inst. 119. ALTO ET BASSO. High and low. This phrase is applied to an agreement made between two contending parties to submit all matters in dispute, alto et basso, to arbitra tion. Cowell. ALTUM MARE. L. Lat. In old En glish law. The high sea, or seas. Go. Litt. 2606. The deep sea. Super altum mare, on the high seas. Hob. 2126. ALUMNUS. A child which one has nursed; a foster-child. Dig. 40, 2,14. One educated at a college or seminary is called an "alumnus" thereof. ALVEUS. The bed or channel through which the stream flows when it runs within its ordinary channel. Calvin. Alveus derelittus, a deserted channel. Mackeld. Bom. Law, § 274. AMALGAMATION. A term applied in England to the merger or consolidation of two incorporated companies or societies. In the case of the Empire Assurance Cor poration, (1867.) L. R. 4 Eq. 347, the vice chancellor said: **It is difficult to say what the word * amalgamate' means. I confess at this moment I have not the least conception of what the full legal effect of the word is. We do not find it in any law dictionary, or expounded by any competent authority. But I am quite sure of this: that the word • amal gamate ' cannot mean that the execution of a deed shall make a man a partner in a firm in which be was not a partner before, under conditions of which he is in no way cognizant, and which are not the same as those contained In the former deed." AMALPHITAN CODE. A collection of sea-laws, compiled about the end of the eleventh century, by the people of Amalphi. It consists of the laws on maritime subjects, which were or had been in force in countries bordering on the Mediterranean; and was for a long time received as authority in those countries. Azuni; Wharton. AMANUENSIS. One who writes on be half of another that which he dictates. AM.DICT.LAW—5

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