KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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ANCIENT

ANAGRAPH

ANCESTRAX. Relating to ancestors, or to what has been done by them; as homage ancestrel. Derived from ancestors. Ancestral estates are such as are transmitted by descent, and not by purchase. 4 Kent, Comm. 404. Brown v. Whaley, 58 Ohio St 654, 49 N. BL 479, 65 Am. St. Rep. 793.

ANAGRAPH. A register, inventory, or commentary. ANALOGY. In logic. Identity or sim ilarity of proportion. Where there is no. precedent in point, in cases on the same sub ject, lawyers have recourse to cases on a different subject-matter, but governed by the same general principle. This is reasoning by analogy. Wharton. ANAPHRODISIA. In medical Jurispru dence. Impotentia coeundi; frigidity; in capacity for sexual intercourse existing in either man or woman, and in the latter case sometimes called "dyspareunia." One who professes and advocates the doctrines of anarchy, q. v. And see Cerveny v. Chicago Daily News Co., 139 111. 345, 28 N. E. 692, 13 L. R. A. 864; United States v. Williams, 194 U. S. 279, 24 Sup. Ct. 719, 48 L. Ed. 979. ANARCHY. The destruction of govern ment; lawlessness; the absence of all polit ical government; by extension, confusion in government. See Spies v. People, 122 111. 1, 253, 12 N. E. 865, 3 Am. St. Rep. 320; Lewis v. Daily News Co., 81 Md. 406, 32 Ati. 246, 29 L. R. A. 59; People v. Most, 36 Misc. Rep. 139, 73 N. Y. Supp. 220; Von Gerichten v. Seitz, 94 App. Div. 130, 87 N. Y. Supp. 968. An ecclesiastical punish ment by which a person is separated from the body of the church, and forbidden all intercourse with the members of the same. To pronounce an athema upon; to pronounce accursed by ec clesiastical authority; to excommunicate. Re peated or doubled interest; compound inter est; usury. Cod. 4, 32, 1, 30. ANCESTOR. One who has preceded an other in a direct line of descent; a lineal ascendant. A former possessor; the person last seised. Termes de la Ley; 2 Bl. Comm. 201. A deceased person from whom another has inherited land. A former possessor. Bailey v. Bailey, 25 Mich. 185; McCarthy •. Marsh, 5 N. Y. 275; Springer v. Fortune, 2 Handy, (Ohio,) 52. In this sense a child may be the "ancestor" of his deceased par ent, or one brother the "ancestor" of an other. Lavery v. Egan, 143 Mass. 389, 9 N. E. 747; Murphy v. Henry, 35 Ind. 450. The term differs from "predecessor," in that it is applied to a natural person and his progenitors, while the latter is applied also to a corporation and those who have held offices before those who now fill them. Co. Litt 786. ANARCHIST. ANATHEMA. ANATHEMATIZE. ANATOCISM. In the civil law.

ANCHOR.

A measure containing ten

gallons.

ANCHOR WATCH. A watch, consist ing of a small number of men, (from one to four,) kept constantly on deck while the vessel is riding at single anchor, to see that the stoppers, painters, cables, and buoy-ropes are ready for immediate use. The Lady Franklin, 2 Lowell, 220, Fed. Cas, No. 7,984. ANCHORAGE. In English law. A pres tation or toll for every anchor cast from a ship in a port; and sometimes, though there be no anchor. Hale, de Jure Mar. pt. 2, c 6. See 1 W. Bl. 413 et seq.; 4 Term. 262. ANCIENT. Old; that which has existed from an indefinitely early period, or which by age alone has acquired certain rights or privileges accorded in view of long continu ance. —Ancient deed. A deed 30 years old and shown to come from a proper custody and hav ing nothing suspicious about it is an "ancient deed" and may be admitted in evidence without proof of its execution. Havens v. Seashore Land Co., 47 N. J. Eq. 365, 20 Atl. 497; Davis v. Wood, 161 Mo. 17, 61 S. W. 695.—Ancient demesne. Manors which in the time of Wil liam the Conqueror were in the hands of the crown, and are so recorded in the Domesday Book. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 14, 56; Baker v. Wich, 1 Salk. 56. Tenure in ancient demesne may be g leaded in abatement to an action of ejectment. :.ust v. Roe, 2 Burr. 1046. Also a species of copyhold, which differs, however, from common copyholds in certain privileges, but yet must be conveyed by surrender, according to the custom of the manor. There are three sorts: # (1) Where the lands are held freely by the king's grant; (2) customary freeholds, which are held of a manor in ancient demesne, but not at the lord's will, although they are conveyed by sur render, or deed and admittance; (3) lands held by copy of court-roll at the lord's will, denom inated copyholds of base tenure.—Ancient house. One which has stood long enough to acquire an easement of support against the ad joining land or building. 3 Kent, Comm. 437; 2 Washb. Real Prop. 74, 76. In England this term is applied to houses or buildings erected before the time of legal memory, (Cooke, Incl. Acts. 35, 109.) that is, before the reign of Rich ard I., although practically any house is an an cient messuage if it was erected before the time of living memory, and its origin cannot be prov ed to be modern.—Ancient lights. Lights or windows in a house, which have been used in their present state, without molestation or in terruption, for twenty years, and upwards. To these the owner of the house has a right by prescription or occupancy, so that they cannot be obstructed or closed by the owner of the adjoining land which they may over look. Wright v. Freeman, 5 Har. & J. (Md.) 477; Storv v. Odin, 12 Mass. 160, 7 Am. Dec. 81.—Ancient readings. Readings or lectures upon the ancient English statutes, for-