KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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AVOWTERER

AWARD, v. To grant, concede, adjudge to. Thus, a jury awards damages; the court awards an injunction. Starkey v. Minneapolis, 19 Minn. 206 (Gil. 166). AWARD, n. The decision or determina tion rendered by arbitrators or commission ers, or other private or extrajudicial decid ers, upon a controversy submitted to them; also the writing or document embodying such decision. Halnon v. Halnon, 55 Vt 321; Henderson v. Beaton, 52 Tex. 43; Pe ters v. Peirce, 8 Mass. 398; Benjamin v. U. S., 29 Ct CI. 417. AWAY-GOING CROP. A crop sown before the expiration of a tenancy, which cannot ripen until after its expiration, to which, however, the tenant is entitled. Broom, Max. 412. AWM. In old English statutes. A meas ure of wine, or vessel containing forty gal lons. AXIOM. In logic. A self-evident truth; an indisputable truth. AYANT CAUSE. In French law. This term signifies one to whom a right has been assigned, either by will, gift, sale, exchange, or the like; an assignee. An ayant cause differs from an heir who acquires the right by inheritance. 8 TouUier, n. 245. The term is used in Louisiana. AYLE. See Am.. AYRE. In old Scotch law. Eyre; a cir cuit, eyre, or iter. AYUNTAMIENTO. In Spanish law. A congress of persons; the municipal council of a city or town. 1 White, Coll. 416; Fried man v. Goodwin, 0 Fed. Cas. 818. AZURE. A term used in heraldry, sig nifying blue.

denies that the plaintiff had the right of prop erty or possession in the subject-matter, alleg ing it to have been in the defendant or a third person, or avers a right sufficient to warrant the defendant in taking it, although such right has not continued in 'force to the time of making answer. AVOWTERER. In English law. An adulterer with whom a married woman con tinues in adultery. Termes de la Ley. AVOWTRY. In old English law. Adul tery. Termes de la Ley. AVULSION. The removal of a consid erable quantity of soil from the land of one man, and its deposit upon or Annexation to the land of another, suddenly and by the perceptible action of water. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 452. The property of the part thus separated continues in the original proprietor, in which respect avulsion differs from alluvion, by which an addition is insensibly made to a property by the gradual washing down of the river, and which addition becomes the property of the owner of the lands to which the addition is made. Wharton. And see Rees v. McDaniel, 115 Mo. 145, 21 S. W. 913; Nebraska v. Iowa, 143 U. S. 359, 12 Sup. Ct 396, 36 L. Ed. 186; Bouvier v. Stricklett, 40 Neb. 792, 59 N. W. 550; Chi cago v. Ward, 169 111. 392, 48 N. E. 927, 38 L. R. A. 849, 61 Am. St Rep. 185. AVUNCULUS. In the civil law. A moth er's brother. 2 Bl. Comm. 230. Avunculus magnus, a great-uncle. Avunculus major, a great-grandmother's brother. Avunculus maximum, a great-great-grandmother's broth er. See Dig. 38, 10, 10; Inst. 3, 6, 2. AVUS. In the civil law. A grandfather Inst. 3, 6, 1. AWAIT. A term used in old statutes, signifying a lying in wait, or waylaying.