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distributed among several persons, It cannot be all given to one. nor can any of the per sons be wholly excluded from the distribu tion. Hudson v. Hudson, 6 Munf. (Va.) 352. An alienation of lands or tenements in mortmain. The re duction of the property of lands or tene ments to mortmain. In its modern sense, amortization Is the operation of paying off bonds, stock, or other indebtedness of a state or corporation. Sweet. AMORTIZE. To alien lands in mort main. AMOTIO. In the civil law. A moving or taking away. "The slightest amotio is sufficient to constitute theft, if the animus furandi be clearly established." 1 Swlnt 205, AMOTION. A putting or turning out; dispossession of lands. Ouster is an amo tion of possession. 3 Bl. Comm. 199, 208. A moving or carrying away; the wrongful taking of personal chattels. Archb. Civil PI. Introd. c. 2, § 3. In corporation law. The act of remov ing an officer, or official representative, of a corporation from his office or official station, before the end of the term for which he was elected or appointed, but without de priving him of membership in the body cor porate. In this last respect the term differs from "disfranchisement," (or expulsion,) which imports the removal of the party from the corporation itself, and his deprivation of all rights of membership. White v. Brown ell, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 356; Richards v. Clarks burg, 30 W. Va. 491, 4 S. B. 774. AMOUNT. The effect, substance, or re sult; the total or aggregate sum. Hilburn T. Railroad Co., 23 Mont 229, 58 Pac. 551; Connelly v. Telegraph Co., 100 Va. 51, 40 S. E. 618, 56 L. R. A. 663, 93 Am. St, Rep. 919. —Amount covered. In insurance. The amount that is insured, and for which under writers are liable for loss under a policy of inr suranee.—Amount in controversy. The damages claimed or relief demanded; the amount claimed or sued for. Smith v. Giles, 65 Tex. 341; Barber v. Kennedy, 18 Minn. 216, (Gil. 196;) Railroad Co. v. Cunnigan, 95 Tex. 439, 67 S. W. 888—Amount of loss. In insurance. The diminution, destructions, or defeat of the value of, or of the charge upon, the insured subject to the assured, by the direct consequence of the operation of the risk insured against, according to its value in the policy, or in contribution for loss, so far as its value is covered by the insurance. AMOVEAS MANUS. Lat That you remove your hands. After office found, the king was entitled to the things forfeited, either lands or personal property; the rem edy for a person aggrieved was by "peti AMORTIZATION.

tion,'* or "monstrans de droit? or "travers es," to establish his superior right There upon a writ issued, quod manus domini regis amoveantur. 3 BL Comm. 260. In Spanish-American law. A document issued to a claimant of land as a protection to him, until a survey can be ordered, and the title of possession issued by an authorized commissioner. Trimble v. Smither's Adm'r, 1 Tex. 790. AMPLIATION. In the civil law. A deferring of judgment until a cause be fur ther examined. Calvin.; Cowell. An ortler for the rehearing of a cause on a day ap pointed, for the sake of more ample infor mation. Halifax, Anal. b. 3, c. 13, n. 32. In French law. A duplicate of an ac quittance or other instrument. A notary's copy of acts passed before him, delivered to the parties. AMPIilUS. In the Roman law. More; further; more time. A word which the prae tor pronounced in cases where there was any obscurity in a cause, and the judices were uncertain whether to condemn or acquit; by which the case was deferred to a day nam ed. Adam, Rom. Ant 287. AMPUTATION OF RIGHT HAND. An ancient punishment for a blow given in a superior court; or for assaulting a judge sitting In the court AN. The English Indefinite article. In statutes and other legal documents, it is equivalent to "one" or "any;" is seldom used to denote plurality. Kaufman v. Superior Court, 115 Gal. 152, 46 Pac. 904; People v. Ogden, 8 App. Dlv. 464, 40 N. Y. Supp. 827. AN ET JOUR. Fr. Year and day; a year and a day. AN, JOUR, ET WASTE. In feudal law. Year, day, and waste. A forfeiture of the lands to the crown incurred by the felony of the tenant, after which time the land es cheats to the lord. Termes de la Ley, 40. ANACRISIS. In the civil law. An in vestigation of truth, interrogation of wit nesses, and inquiry made into any fact, especially by torture. ANESTHESIA. In medical jurispru dence. (1) Loss of sensation, or insensibility to pain, general or local, induced by the ad ministration or application of certain drugs such as ether, nitrous oxide gas, or cocaine. (2) Defect of sensation, or more or less com plete insensibility to pain, existing in vari ous parts of the body as a result of certair diseases of the nervous system. AMFARO. AMY. See AMI; PBOCHEIN AMY.