Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ARISTO-DEMOCBACY

AROMATIC

ABISTO-DEMOCBACY. A form of government where the power is divided be tween the nobles and the people. ARLES. Earnest. Used in Yorkshire in the phrase "Aries-penny." Cowell. In Scotland it has the same signification. Bell* ABM OF THE SEA. A portion of the sea projecting inland, in which the tide ebbs and flows. 5 Coke, 107. An arm of the sea is considered as extending as far into the interior of a country as the water of fresh rivers is propelled backwards by the ingress of the tide. Ang. Tide-wa ters, 73. ABMA. Lat. Arms; weapons, offensive and defensive; armor; arms or cognizances of families. ABM A DABE. To dub or make a knight Arma in armatos sumere jura sinunt. The laws permit the taking up of arms against armed persons. 2 Inst. 574. ABMA MOLUTA. Sharp weapons that cut, in contradistinction to such as are blunt, which only break or bruise. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 33, par. 6. BEVEBSATA. Reversed arms, a punishment for a traitor or felon. Cowell. ABMATAVIS. In the civil law. Armed force. Dig. 43, 16, 3; Fleta, lib. 4, c. 4. ABMED. A vessel is "armed" when she is fitted with a full armament for fighting purposes. She may be equipped for warlike purposes, without being "armed." By "armed" it is ordinarily meant that she has cannon, but if she had a fighting crew, mus kets, ' pistols, powder, shot, cutlasses, and boarding appliances, she might well be said to be equipped for warlike purposes, though not armed. 2 Hurl. & C. 537; 2 Cranch, 121. ABMIG-EB. An armor-bearer; an es quire. A title of dignity belonging to gen tlemen authorized to bear arms. Cowell. In its earlier meaning, a servant who car ried the arms of a knight. Spelman. A tenant by scutage; a servant or valet; applied, also, to the higher servants in con vents. Spelman. ABMISCABA. An ancient mode of pun ishment, which was to carry a saddle at the back as a token of subjection. Spelman.

ABMISTICE. A suspending or cessation of hostilities between belligerent nations or forces for a considerable time. ABMOBIAL BEARINGS. In English law. A device depicted on the (now imagi nary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from ancestry. Armorum appellatione, non solum scuta et gladii et galeee, sed et fustes et lapides continentur. Under the name of arms are included, not only shields and swords and helmets, but also clubs and stones. Co. Litt. 162. ABMS. Anything that a man wears for his defense, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at or strike at another. Co. Litt. 1616,162a; Cromp. Just. Peace, 65. This term, as it is used in the constitution, relative to the right of citizens to bear arms, refers to the arms of a militiaman or soldier, and the word is used in its military sense. The arms of the infantry soldier are the mus ket and bayonet; of cavalry and dragoons, the sabre, holster pistols, and carbine; of the ar tillery, thefield-piece,siege-gun, and mortar, with side arms. The term, in this connec tion, cannot be made to cover such weapons as dirks, daggers, slung-shots, sword-canes, brass knuckles, and bowie-knives. These are not military arms. 37 Tex. 476; 8 Heisk. 179. Arms, or coat of arms, signifies insignia, i. «., ensigns of honor, such as were formerly assumed by soldiers of fortune, and painted on their shields to distinguish them; or nearly the same as armorial bearings, (q. ©.) ABMY. The armed forces of a nation in tended for military service on land. "Theterm *army' or 'armies' has never been used by congress, so far as I am advised, so as to include the navy or marines, and there is nothing in the act of 1862, or the circumstances which led to its passage, to warrant the conclusion that it was used there in in any other than its long established and ordinary sense,—the land force, as distin guished from the navy and marines." 2 Sawy. 205. AROMATARIUS. A word formerly used for a grocer. 1 Vent. 142. ABOMATIC. This word, when em ployed to express one of the qualities of a liquor, cannot be protected as a trade-mark. 45Cal. 467.

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