Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

AMOVE AS MAN US

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ANCHORAGE

against, according to its value in the policy, or in contribution for loss, so far as its value is covered by the insurance. AMOVEAS MANUS. Lat. That you remove your hands. After office found, the king was entitled to the things forfeited either lands or personal property; the remedy for a person aggrieved was by "petition," or "monstrans de droit," or "traverses, " to es tablish his superior right. Thereupon a writ issued, quod manus domini regis amovean tur. 3 Bl. Comm. 260. AMPAltO. In Spanish-American law. A document issued to a claimant of land as a protection to him, until a survey can be or dered, and the title of possession issued by an authorized commissioner. 1 Tex. 790. AMPLIATION. In the civil law. A deferring of judgment until a cause be further examined. Calvin.; Cowell. An order for the rehearing of a cause on a day appointed, for the sake of more ample information. Halifax, Anal. b. 3, c. 13, n. 32. In French law. A duplicate of an ac quittance or other instrument. A notary's copy of acts passed before him, delivered to the parties AMPLIUS. In the Roman law. More; further; more time. A word which the prae tor pronounced in cases where there was any obscurity in a cause, and the judices were uncertain whether to condemn or acquit; by which the case was deferred to a day named. Adam, Rom. Ant. 287. AMPUTATION OF RIGHT HAND. An ancient punishment for a blow given in a superior court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the court. See AMI; PROOHEIN AMT. AN ET JOUR. Fr. Year and day; a year and a day. AN, JOUR, ET WASTE. In feudal law. Year, day, and waste. A forfeiture of the lands to the crown incurred by the felony of the tenant, after which time the land es cheats to the lord. Termes de la Ley, 40. ANACRISIS. In the civil law. An in cestigation of truth, interrogation of wit nesses, and inquiry made into any fact, espe cially by torture. ANAGRAPH. A register, inventory, or commentary. AMY.

ANALOGY. In logic. Identity or simi larity of proportion. Where there is no prec edent in point, in cases on the same subject, lawyers have recourse to cases on a different subject-matter, but governed by the same general principle. This is reasoning by anal ogy. Wharton. ANARCHY. The destruction of govern ment; lawlessness; the absence of all political government; by extension, confusion in gov ernment. See 122 111. 253. ANATHEMA. An ecclesiastical punish ment by which a person is separated from the body of the church, and forbidden all inter course with the members of the same. ANATHEMATIZE. To pronounce an athema upon; to pronounce accursed by ec clesiastical authority; to excommunicate. ANATOCISM. In the civil law. Re peated or doubled interest; compound inter est; usury. Cod. 4, 32, 1, 30. ANCESTOR. One who has preceded an other in a direct line of descent; a lineal as cendant. A former possessor; the person last seised. Termes de la Ley; 2 Bl. Comm. 201. A deceased peison from whom another has inherited land. A former possessor. The term differs from "predecessor," in that it is applied to a natural person and his progenitors, while the latter is applied also to a corporation and those who have held offices before those who now fill them. Co. Litt. 786. ANCESTRAL. Relating to ancestors, or to what has been done by them; as homage ancestrel. Derived from ancestors. Ancestral estates are such as are transmitted by descent, and not by purchase. 4 Kent, Comm. 404. ANCHOR. A measure containing ten gallons. ANCHOR WATCH. A watch, consist ing of a small number of men, (from one to four,) kept constantly on deck while the ves sel is riding at single anchor, to see that the stoppers, painters, cables, and buoy-ropes are ready for immediate use. 2 Low. 220. ANCHORAGE. In English law. A prestation or toll for every anchor cast from a ship in a port; and sometimes, though there be no anchor. Hale, de Jure Mar. pt. 2, c. 6. See 1 W. Bl. 413 et seq.; 4 Term, 262.

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