Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ANNEXATION

ANNUITIES OF TIENDS

tion," as in the case of the addition of Texas to the United States. In the law relating to fixtures: Actual annexation includes every movement by which a chattel can be joined or united to the freehold. Constructive annexation is the union of such things as have been holden parcel of the realty, but which are not actu ally annexed, fixed, or fastened to the free hold. Shep. Touch. 469; Amos & F. Fixt. 2. In Scotch law. The union of lands to the crown, and declaring them inalienable. Also the appropriation of the church-lands by the crown, and the union of lands lying at a distance from the parish church to which they belong, to the church of another parish to which they are contiguous. ANNI ET TEMPOBA. Lat. Years and terms. An old title of the Year Books. ANNI NUBILES. A woman's mar riageable years. The age at which a girl be comes by law fit for marriage; the age of twelve. ANNICULUS. A child a year old. Cal vin. Anniculus trecentesimo sexagesimo quinto die dicitur, incipiente plane non exacto die, quia annum civiliter non ad momenta temporum sed ad dies numeramur. We call a child a year old on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, when the day is fairly begun but not ended, be cause we calculate the civil year not by mo ments, but by days. Dig. 50, 16, 134; Id. 132; Calvin. ANNIENTED. Made null, abrogated, frustrated, or brought to nothing. Litt. c. 8. § 741. ANNIVERSARY. An annual day, in old ecclesiastical law, set apart in memory of a deceased person. Also called "year day" or "mind day." Spelman. ANNO DOMINI. In the year of the Lord. Commonly abbreviated A. D. The computation of time, according to the Chris tian era, dates from the birth of Christ. ANNONA. Grain; food. An old En glish and civil law term to denote a yearly contribution by one person to the support of another. ANNONJE CTVILES. A species of yearly rents issuing out of certain lands, and payable to certain monasteries.

ANNOTATIO. In the civil law. The sign-manual of the emperor; a rescript of the emperor, signed with his own hand. It is distinguished both from a rescript and pragmatic sanction, in Cod. 4, 59, 1. ANNOTATION. A remark, note, or commentary on some passage of a book, in tended to illustrate its meaning. Webster. In the civil law. An imperial rescript signed by the emperor. The answers of the prince to questions put to him by private per sons respecting some doubtful point of law. Summoning an absentee. Big. 1, 5. The designation of a place of deportation. Dig. 32, 1, 3. Annua nee debitum judex non sepa rat ipsum. A judge (or court) does not di vide annuities nor debt. 8 Coke, 52; 1 Salk. 36, 65. Debt and annuity cannot be divided or apportioned by a court. ANNUA PENSIONE. An ancient writ to provide the king's chaplain, if he had no preferment, with a pension. Reg. Orig. 165, 307. ANNUAL ASSAY. An annual trial of the gold and silver coins of the United States, to ascertain whether the standard fineness and weight of the coinage is maintained. See Rev. St. U. S. § 3547. ANNUAL INCOME. Annual income is annual receipts from property. Income means that which comes in or is received from any business, or investment of capital, with out refeience to the outgoing expenditures. 4 Abb. N. C. 400. ANNUAL PENSION. In Scotch law. A yearly profit or rent. ANNUALLY. The meaning of this term, as applied to interest, is not an under taking to pay interest at the end of one year only, but to pay interest at the end of each and every year during a period of time, either fixed or contingent. 6 Gray, 164. See, also, 19 S. C. 89; 16 Ohio St. 348. ANNUITANT. The recipient of an an nuity; one who is entitled to an annuity. ANNUITIES OP TIENDS. In Scotch law; annuities of tithes; 10*. out of the boll of tiend wheat, 85. out of the boll of beer, less out of the boll of rye, oats, and peas, al lowed to the crown yearly of the tiends not paid to the bishops, or set apart for other pious uses.

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