KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

AMBASSADOR

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AMBULATOR?

Ambassador is the commissioner who rep resents one country in the seat of govern ment of another. He is a public minister, which, usually, a consul is not. Brown. Ambassador is a person sent by one sover eign to another, with authority, by letters of credence, to treat on affairs of state. Ja cob.

the defective, obscure, or insensible language tised. Carter v. Holman, 60 Mo. 504; Brown v. Guice, 46 Miss. 302; Stokeley v. Gordon, 8 Md. 505; Chambers v. Ringstaff, 69 Ala. 140; Hawkins v. Garland, 76 Va. 152, 44 Am. Rep. 158; Hand v. Hoffman, 8 N. J. Law, 71; Ives v. Kimball, 1 Mich. 313; Palmer v. Albee, 50 Iowa, 431; Petrie v. Hamilton Col lege, 158 N. Y. 458, 53 N. E. 216. Synonyms. Ambiguity of language is to be distinguished from unintelligibility and inaccu racy, for words cannot be said to be ambiguous unless their signification seems doubtful and un certain to persons of competent skill and knowl edge to understand them. Story, Contr 272. The term "ambiguity" does not include mere inaccuracy, or such uncertainty as arises from the use of peculiar words, or of common words in a peculiar sense. Wig. Wills, 174. —Ambiguity upon the factum. An am biguity in relation to the very foundation of the instrument itself, as distinguished from an ambiguity in regard to the construction of its terms. The term is applied, for instance, to a doubt as to whether a testator meant a particu lar clause to be a part of the will, or whether it was introduced with his knowledge, or wheth er a codicil was meant to republish a former will, or whether the residuary clause was ac cidentally omitted. Eatherly v. Eatherly, i Cold. (Tenn.) 461, 465, 78 Am. Dec. 499. Ambignnm pactum contra venditorem interpretandum est. An ambiguous con tract is to be interpreted against the seller. Ambignnm placitnm interpretari de bet contra proferentem. An ambiguous plea ought to be interpreted against the party pleading it Co. Litt. 303&. A boundary line, as going around a place; an exterior or inclosing line or limit. The limits or circumference of a power or Jurisdiction; the line circumscribing any sub ject-matter. AMBITUS. In the Roman law. A going around; a path worn by going around. A space of at least two and a half feet in width, between neighboring houses, left for the con venience of going around them. Calvin. The procuring of a public office by money or gifts; the unlawful buying and selling of a public office. Inst 4, 18, 11; Dig. 48, 14. The will of a deceased person is ambulatory until the latest moment of life. Dig. 34, 4, 4. AMBUXATORY. Movable; revocable; subject to change. Ambulatoria voluntas (a changeable will) denotes the power which a testator possesses of altering his will during his life-time. Hattersley v. Bissett, 50 N. J. Eq. 577, 25 Atl. 332. The court of king's bench in England was formerly called an "ambulatory court," be cause it followed the king's person, and was AMBIT. Ambulatoria est voluntas defunc^i usque ad vitse supremum exitum.

AMBER, or AMBRA.

In old English

law. A measure of four bushels.

AMBIDEXTER. Skillful both hands; one who plays on both sides. Ap plied anciently to an attorney who took pay from both sides, and subsequently to a juror guilty of the same offense. Cowell. Ambigua responsio contra proferen tem est accipienda. An ambiguous an swer is to be taken against (is not to be con strued in favor of) him who offers it. 10 Coke, 59. Ambiguis casibus semper prsesumituv pro rege. In doubtful cases, the presump tion always is in behalf of the crown. Lofftf Append. 248. with uncertainty of meaning. Ambiguitas latens, a latent ambiguity; ambiguitas patens, a patent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY. verifl eatione suppletnr; nam quod ex facto oritur ambignnm verificatione facti tol litur. A latent ambiguity in the language may be removed by evidence; for whatever ambiguity arises from an extrinsic fact may be explained by extrinsic evidence. Bac. Max. Reg. 28* Ambignitas verbornm patens nulla verificatione exduditur. A patent am biguity cannot be cleared up by extrinsic evi dence. Lofft, 249. AMBIGUITY. Doubtfulness; doubleness of meaning; indistinctness or uncertainty of meaning of an expression used in a written instrument. Nindle v. State Bank, 13 Neb. 245, 13 N. W. 275; Ellmaker v. Ellmaker, 4 Watts (Pa.) 89; Kraner v. Halsey, 82 Cal. 209, 22 Pac. 1137; Ward v. Epsy, 6 Humph. (Tenn.) 447. An ambiguity may be either latent or patent. It .*s the former, where the language employed is clear and intelligible and sug gests but a single meaning, but some ex trinsic fact or extraneous evidence creates a necessity' for interpretation or a choice among two or more possible meanings. But a patent ambiguity is that which appears on the face of the instrument, and arises from Ambiguitas veborum latens AMBIGUITAS. Lat From ambiguus, doubtful, uncertain, obscure. Ambiguity;