Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ANIMAL. Any animate being which Is endowed with the power of voluntary motion. In the language of the law the term includes all living creatures not human. Domitce are those which have been tamed by man; domestic. Ferce naturce are those which still retain their wild nature. Mansuetce naturce are those gentle or tame by nature, such as sheep and cows. Animalia fera, si facta sint mansueta et ex. consuetudine eunt et redeunt, vo lant et revolant, ut cervi, cygni, etc., eo usque nostra sunt, et ita intelliguntur quamdiu habuerunt animum revertendi. Wild animals, if they be made tame, and are accustomed to go out and return, fly away and fly back, as stags, swans, etc., are con sidered to belong to us so long as they have the intention of returning to us. 7 Coke, 16. ANIMALS OP A BASE NATURE. Animals in which a right of property may be acquired by reclaiming them from wildness, but which, at common law, by reason of their base nature, are not regarded as possible sub jects of a larceny. 3 Inst. 109; 1 Hale, P. C. 511, 512. ANIMO. Lat. With intention, disposi tion, design, will. Quo animo, with what intention. Animo cancellandi, with inten tion to cancel. 1 Pow. Dev. 603. Furandi, with intention to steal. 4 Bl. Comm. 230; 1 Kent, Comm. 183. Lucrandi, with inten tion to gain or profit. 3 Kent, Comm. 357. Manendi, with intention to remain. 1 Kent, Comm. 76. Morandi, with intention to stay, or delay. Republicandi, with intention to republish. 1 Pow. Dev. 609. Revertendi, with intention to return. 2 Bl. Comm. 392. Revocandi, with intention to revoke. 1 Pow Dev. 595. Testandi, with intention to make a will. See ANIMUS and the titles which follow it. ANIMO ET CORPORE. By the mind, and by the body; by the intention and by the physical act. Dig. 50, 17, 153; Id. 41, 2 3, 1; Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5, §§ 9, 10. ANIMO FELONICO. With felonious intent. Hob. 134. ANIMUS. Lat. Mind; intention; dispo sition; design; will. Animo, (q. v.;) with the intention or design. These terms are derived from the civil law. Animus ad se omne jus dudt. It is to the intention that all law applies. Law al ways regards the intention.

first-born; senior, as contrasted with the puis-ne, (younger.) Spelman. ANGARIA. A term used in the Roman law to denote a forced or compulsory service exacted by the government for public pur poses; as a forced rendition of labor or goods for the public service. See Dig. 50, 4,18, 4. In maritime law. A forced service, (onus,) imposed on a vessel for public pur poses; an impressment of a vessel. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 5, §§ 1-6. In feudal law. Any troublesome or vex atious personal service paid by the tenant to his lord. Spelman. ANGEL. An ancient English coin, of the value of ten shillings sterling. Jacob. ANGILD. In Saxon law. The single value of a man or other thing; a single were gild; the compensation of a thing according to its single value or estimation. Spelman. The double gild or compensation was called " twigild," the triple, " trigild,» etc. Id. ANGLESCHERIA. In oldEnglish law. Englishery; the fact of being an English man. Anglise jura in omnl casu libertatis dant favorem. The laws of England in every case of liberty are favorable, (favor liberty in all cases.) Fortes, c. 42. ANGLICE. In English. A term for merly used in pleading when a thing is de scribed both in Latin and English, inserted immediately after the Latin and as an intro duction of the English translation. ANGLO - INDIAN. An Englishman domiciled in the Indian territory of the Brit ish crown. ANGYLDE. In Saxon law. The rate fixed by law at which certain injuries to per ion or property were to be paid for; in injuries to the person, it seems to be equivalent to the "were," t. «., the price at which every man was valued. It seems also to have been the fixed price at which cattle and other goods were received as currency, and to have been much higher than the market price, or ceap gild. Wharton. ANHLOTE. In old English law. A single tribute or tax, paid according to the custom of the country as scot and lot. ANIENS, or ANIENT. Null, void, of no force or effect. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 214.

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