Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

APT WORDS

APPROVE

which formerly were let at a certain value to the sheriff. Cowell. APPROVERS. In old English law. Bailiffs of lords in their franchises. Sheriffs were called the king's "approvers" inlEdw. III. st. 1, c. 1. Termes de la Ley, 49. Approveis in the Marches were those who had license to sell and purchase beasts there. APPRUARE. To take to one's use or profit. Cowell. APPULSTJS. In the civil law. A driv ing to, as of cattle to water. Dig. 8,3,1,1. APPURTENANCE. That which be longs to something else; an adjunct; an ap pendage; something annexed to another thing more worthy as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way or other easement to land; an out-house, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. Webster. Appurtenances of a ship include whatever is on board a ship for the objects of the voy age and adventure in which she is engaged, belonging to her owner. Appurtenant is substantially the same in meaning as accessory, but it is more technic ally used in relation to property, and is the more appropriate word for a conveyance. APPURTENANT. Belonging to; acces sory or incident to; adjunct, appended, or an nexed to; answering to accessorium in the civil law. 2 Steph. Comm. 30 note. A thing is deemed to be incidental or ap purtenant to land when it is by right used with the land for its benefit, as in the case of a way, or water-course, or of a passage for light, air, or heat from or across the land of another. Civil Code Gal. § 662. In common speech, appurtenant denotes annexed or belonging to; but in law it de notes an annexation which is of convenience merely and not of necessity, and which may have had its origin at any time, in both which respects it is distinguished from appendant, APT TIME. Apt time sometimes de pends upon lapse of time; as, where a thing; is required to be done at the first term, or within a given time, it cannot be done after wards. But the phrase more usually refers to the order of proceedings, as fit or suitable. 74 N. C. 383. APT WORDS. Words proper to produce the legal effect for which they are intended; sound technical phrases.

factory a bond, security, or other instrument which is required by law to pass his inspec tion and receive his approbation before it be comes operative. APPROVE. To take to one's proper and separate use. To improve; to enhance the value or profits of anything. To inclose and cultivate common or waste land. To approve common or waste land is to in close and convert it to the purposes of hus bandry, which the owner might always do, provided he left common sufficient for such as were entitled to it. St. Mert. c. 4; St. Westm. 2, c. 46; 2 Bl. Comm. 34; 3 Bl. Comin. 240; 2 Steph. Comm. 7; 8 Kent, Comm. 406. In old criminal law. To accuse or prove; to accuse an accomplice by giving evidence against him. APPROVED INDORSED NOTES. Notes indorsed by another person than the maker, for additional security. APPROVEMENT. Bythecommon law, approvement is said to be a species of con fession, and incident to the arraignment of a piisoner indicted for treason or felony, who confesses the fact before plea pleaded, and appeals or accuses others, his accomplices in the same crime, in order to obtain his own pardon. In this case he is called an "ap piover," or "prover," "probator," and the party appealed or accused is called the "ap pellee." Such approvement can only be in capital offenses, and it is, as it were, equiva lent to an indictment, since the appellee is equally called upon to answer it. 26 111. 347. APPROVER.. Approvement; improve ment. "There can be no approver in dero gation of a right of common of turbary." 1 Taunt. 435. APPROVER. L. Fr. To approve or prove; to vouch. Kelham. APPROVER,. In criminal law. An ac complice in crime who accuses others of the same offense, and is admitted as a witness at the discretion of the court to give evidence against his companions in guilt. He is vul garly called "Queen's Evidence." He is one who confesses himself guilty of felony and accuses others of the same crime to save himself from punishment. 26 111. 175. In old English law. Certain men sent into the several counties to increase the farms (rents) of hundreds and wapentakes,

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