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APOTHEOA

APHASIA

AFOCH2E ONERATORL32. In old com mercial law. Bills of lading. APOCRISARTUS. In ecclesiastical law. One who answers for another. An officer whose duty was to carry to the emperor mes sages relating to ecclesiastical matters, and to take back his answer to the petitioners. An officer who gave advice on questions of ecclesiastical law. An ambassador or legate of a pope or bishop. Spelman. —Apocrisarins cancellarius. In the civil law. An officer who took charge of the royal seal and signed royal dispatches. APOGRAPHIA. A civil law term sig nifying an inventory or enumeration of things in one's possession. Calvin. APOPLEXY. In medical jurisprudence. The failure of consciousness and suspension of voluntary motion from suspension of the functions of the cerebrum. APOSTACY. In English law. The total renunciation of Christianity, by embracing either a false religion or no religion at alL This offense can only take place in such as have once professed the Christian religion. 4 Bl. Comm. 43; 4 Steph. Comm. 231. APOSTATA. In civil and old English law. An apostate; a deserter from the faith; one who has renounced the Christian faith. Cod. l, 7; Reg. Orig. 716. —Apostata capiendo. An obsolete English writ which issued against an apostate, or one who had violated the rules of his religious or der. It was addressed to the sheriff, and com manded him. to deliver the defendant into the custody of the abbot or prior. Reg. Orig. 71, 267; Jacob; Wharton. APOSTILLE, Appostille. L. Fr. An addition; a marginal note or observation. Kelham. APOSTLES. In English admiralty prac tice. A term borrowed from the civil law, denoting brief dismissory letters granted to a party who appeals from an inferior to a su perior court, embodying a statement of the case and a declaration that the record will be transmitted. This term is still sometimes applied in the admiralty courts of the United States to the papers sent up or transmitted on appeals. APOSTOLI. In the civil law. Certifi cates of the inferior judge from whom a cause is removed, directed to the superior. Dig. 49, 6. See APOSTLES. APOSTOLUS. A messenger; an ambas sador, legate, or nuncio. Spelman. APOTHECA. In the civil law. A re pository; a place of deposit, as of wine, oil, books, etc. Calvin.

side-lines of bis location.; but he may not go beyond his end-lines or vertical planes drawn downward therefrom. This is called the apex rule. Rev. St. U. S. § 2322 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 1425); King v. Mining Co., 9 Mont 543, 24 Pac. 200. In medical Jurisprudence. Loss of the faculty or power of articulate speech; a condition in which the patient, while retaining intelligence and understand ing and with the organs of speech unimpair ed, is unable to utter articulate words, or unable to vocalize the particular word which is in his mind and which he wishes to use, or utters words different from those he be lieves himself to be speaking, or (in "sensory aphasia") is unable to understand spoken or written language. The seat of the disease is in the brain, but it is not a form of insanity. APHONIA. In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the power of articulate speech in consequence of morbid conditions of some of the vocal organs. It may be incomplete, in which case the patient can whisper. It is to be distinguished from congenital dumbness, and from temporary loss of voice through extreme hoarseness or minor affections of the vocal cords, as also from aphasia, the latter being a disease of the brain without impairment of the organs of speech. Apices juris non sunt jura, [jus.] Ex tremities, or mere subtleties of law, are not rules of law, [are not law.] Co. Litt 304&; 10 Coke, 126; Wing. Max. 19, max. 14; Broom, Max. 188. APICES LITIGANDI. Extremely fine points, or subtleties of litigation. Nearly equivalent to the modern phrase "sharp prac tice." "It is unconscionable in a defendant to take advantage of the apices litigandi, to turn a plaintiff around and make him pay costs when his demand is just." Per Lord Mansfield, in 3 Burr. 1243. In medical jurisprudence. Want of breath; difficulty in breathing; partial or temporary suspension of respira tion; specifically, such difficulty of respira tion resulting from over-oxygenation of the blood, and in this distinguished from "as phyxia," which is a condition resulting from a deficiency of oxygen in the blood due to suffocation or any serious interference with normal respiration. The two terms were formerly (but improperly) used synonymous ly. APOCHA. Lat In the civil law. A writing acknowledging payments; acquit tance. It differs from acceptation in this: that acceptilation imports a complete dis charge of the former obligation whether pay ment be made or not; apocha, discharge only upon payment being made. Calvin. APHASIA. APN(EA.