Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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priated. Practically, however, the words are used interchangeably. 3. To appropriate is also used in the sense of to distribute; in this sense it may denote the act of an executor or administrator who distributes the estate of his decedent among the legatees, heirs, or others entitled, in pur suance of his duties and according to their respective rights. APPROPRIATION. The act of appro priating or setting apart; prescribing the destination of a thing; designating the use or application of a fund. In public law. The act by which the legislative department of government desig nates a particular fund, or sets apart a speci fied portion of the public revenue or of the money in the public treasury, to be applied to some general object of governmental ex penditure, (as the civil service list, etc.,) or to some individual purchase or expense. When money is appropriated (i. e., set apart) for the purpose of securing the pay ment of a specific debt or class of debts, or for an individual purchase or object of ex pense, it is said to be specifically appropriated for that purpose. A specific appropriation is an act of the legislature by which a named sum of money has been set apart in the treasury, and de voted to the payment of a particular demand. 45 Cal. 149. Appropriation of payments. This means the application of a payment to the discharge of a particular debt. Thus, if a cred itor has two distinct debts due to him from his debtor, and the latter makes a general payment on account, without specifying at the time to which debt he intends the pay ment to apply, it is optional for the creditor to appropriate (apply) the payment to either of the two debts he pleases. (1 Mer. 585.) Brown. In English ecclesiastical law. The perpetual annexing of a benefice to some spiritual corporation either sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living. 1 Bl. Comm. 384; 3 Steph. Comm. 70-75; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 144, § 129. Where the annexation ia to the use of a lay person, it is usually called an "impropriation." 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 145, § 130. APPROPRIATOR, In English ecclesias tical law. A spiritual corporation entitled to the profits of a benefice. APPROVAL. The act of a judge or mag istrate in sanctioning and accepting as satis

APPRENTICESHIP. A contract by which one person, usually a minor, called the "apprentice," is bound to another person, called the "master," to serve him during a prescribed term of years in his art, trade, or business, in consideration of being instruct ed by the master in such art or trade, and (commonly) of receiving his support and maintenance from the master during such term. The term during which an apprentice is to serve. The status of an apprentice; the relation subsisting between an apprentice and his master. APPRENTICIUS AD LEGEM. An apprentice to the law; a law student; a coun selor below the degree of Serjeant; a barris ter. See APPRENTICE EN LA LEY. APPRIZING. In Scotch law. A form of process by which a creditor formerly took possession of the estates of the debtor in pay ment of the debt due. It is now superseded by adjudications. APPROACH. In international law. The right of a ship of war, upon the high sea, to visit another vessel for the purpose of ascertaining the nationality of the latter. 1 Kent, Comm. 153, note. APPROBATE AND REPROBATE. In Scotch law. To approve and reject; to take advantage of one part, and reject the rest. Bell. Equity suffers no person to ap probate and reprobate the same deed. 1 Kames, Eq. 317; 1 Bell, Comm. 146. APPROPRIATE. 1. To make a thing one's own; to make a thing the subject of property; to exercise dominion over an object to the extent, and for the purpose, of making it subserve one's own proper use or pleasure. The term is properly used in this sense to de note the acquisition of pioperty and a right of exclusive enjoyment in those things which before were without an owner or werepub lici juris. 2. To prescribe a particular use for particu lar moneys; to designate or destine a fund or property for a distinct use, or for the payment of a particular demand. In its use with reference to payments or moneys, there is room for a distinction between this term and "apply." The former properly denotes the setting apart of a fund or payment for a particular use or purpose, or the mental act of resolving that it shall be so employed, while "apply " signifies the actual expenditure of the fund, or using the pay ment, for the purpose to which it has been appro

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