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ARTIFICER

The terms and conditions under which property is sold at auction.— Articles of set. In Scotch law. An agreement for a lease. Paters. Comp. — Articles of the clergy. The title of a stat ute passed in the ninth year of Edward II. for the purpose of adjusting and settling the great questions of cognizance then existing between the ecclesiastical and temporal courts. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 291-296.— Articles of the navy. A system of rules prescribed by act of parhament for the government of the English navy; also, in the United States, there are ar ticles for the government of the navy.— Arti cles of the peace. A complaint made or exhibited to a court by a person who makes oath that he is in fear of death or bodily harm from some one whojias threatened or attempted to do him injury. The court may thereupon or der the person complained of to find sureties for the peace, and, in default, may commit him to prison. 4 Bl. Comm. 255.— Articles of un ion, In English law. Articles agreed to, A. D. 1707, by the parliaments of England and Scotland, for the union of the two kingdoms. They were twenty-five in number. 1 Bl. Comm. 96.— Articles of war. Codes framed for the government of a nation's army are commonly thus called. In Scotch law. Where the creditor holds sev eral distinct debts, a separate adjudication for each claim is thus called. Article by article; by distinct clauses or articles; by separate propositions. ARTICULI. Lat Articles; items or heads. A term applied to some old English statutes, and occasionally to treatises. —Articuli cleri. Articles of the clergy, (g. v.)— Articuli de moneta. Articles concern ing money, or the currency. The title of a statute passed in the twentieth year of Ed ward I. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 228; Crabb, Eng. Law, fAmer. Ed.) 167.— Articuli Magnae Chartse. The preliminary articles, forty-nine in number, upon which the Magna Charta was founded — Articuli super chartas. Articles upon the charters. The title of a statute passed in the twenty-eighth year of Edward I. st. 3, confirming or enlarging many particulars in Magna Charta, and the Charta de Foresta, and appointing a method for enforcing • the observ ance of them, and for the punishment of of fenders. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 103, 233. ARTICULATE ADJUDICATION. ARTICULATELY. ARTIFICER. One who buys goods in order to reduce them, by his own art or in dustry, into other forms, and then to sell them. Lansdale v. Brashear, 3 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 335. One who is actually and personally en gaged or employed to do work of a me chanical or physical character, not includ ing one who takes contracts for labor to be performed by others. Ingram v. Barnes, 7 El. & Bl. 135; Chawner v. Cummings, 8 Q. B. 321. One who is master of his art, and whose employment consists chiefly in manual labor. Wharton; Cunningham. ARTICULO MORTIS. monly in articulo mortis.) death; at the point of death. (Or more com In the article of

or established by authority or requiring ju dicial action. 2. A statute; as having its provisions ar ticulately expressed under distinct heads. Several of the ancient English statutes were called "articles," (articuli.) 3. A system of rules established by legal authority; as articles of war, articles of the navy, articles of faith, (see infra.) 4. A contractual document executed be tween parties, containing stipulations or terms of agreement; as articles of agree ment, articles of partnership. 5. In chancery practice. A formal written statement of objections filed by a party, aft er depositions have been taken, showing ground for discrediting the witnesses. — Articles approbatory. In Scotch law. That part of the proceedings which corresponds to the answer to the charge in an English bill in chancery. Paters. Comp.— Articles im probatory. In Scotch law. Articulate aver ments setting forth the facts relied upon. Bell. That part of the proceedings which corresponds to the charge in an English bill in chancery to set aside a deed. Paters. Comp. The answer is called "articles approbatory."— Articles, Lords of. A committee of the Scottish par liament, which, in the mode of its election, and by the nature of its powers, was calculated to increase the influence of the crown, and to con fer upon it a power equivalent to that of a negative before debate. This system appeared inconsistent with the freedom of parliament, and at the revolution the convention of estates de clared it a grievance, and accordingly it was sup pressed by Act 1690, c. 3. Wharton.— Articles 4>f agreement. A written memorandum of the terms of an agreement. It is a common prac tice for persons to enter into articles of agree ment, preparatory to the execution of a formal deed, whereby it is stipulated that one of the parties shall convey to the other certain lands, or release his right to them, or execute some other disposition of them.— Articles of asso ciation. Articles subscribed by the members of a joint-stock company or corporation organiz ed under a general law, and which create the corporate union between them. Such articles are in the nature of a partnership agreement, and commonly specify the form of organization, amount of capital, kind of business to be pur sued, location of the company, etc. Articles of association are to be distinguished from a char ter, in that the latter is a grant of power from the sovereign or the legislature.— Articles of confederation. The name of the instrument embodying the compact made between the thir teen original states of the Union, before the adoption of the present constitution.— Articles •of faith.. In English law. The system of faith of the Church of England, more commonly known as the "Thirty-Nine Articles."— Arti cles of impeachment. A formal written al legation of the causes for impeachment; an swering the same office as ,an indictment in an ordinary criminal proceeding.— Articles of in corporation. The instrument by which a pri vate corporation is formed and organized under general corporation laws. People v. Golden Gate Lodge, 128 Cal. 257, 60 Pac. 865.— Arti cles of partnership. A written agreement by which the parties enter into a copartnership X n the terms and conditions therein stipulat- -Articles of religion. In English eccle siastical law. Commonly called the "Thirty Nine Articles;" a body of divinity drawn up by the convocation in 15G2, and confirmed by James I.—Articles of roup. In Scotch law.