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ARGUMENTUM A COMMUNITKR

ARCHIVIST

selves thus preserved; thus we say the ai> chives of a college, of a monastery, a public office, etc. Texas M. Ry. Co. v. Jarvis, 69 Tex. 537, 7 S. W. 210; Guillbeau v. Mays, 15 Tex. 410. ARCHIVIST. The custodian of archives. CUSTODIA. Lat. In strict and safe custody or keeping. When a defendant is arrested on a capias ad satisfaciendum, (ca. sa.,) he is to be kept arcta et salva custodi. 3 Bl. Comm. 415. ARDENT SPIRITS. Spirituous or dis tilled liquors. Sarlls v. U. S., 152 U. S. 570, 14 Sup. Ct. 720, 38 L. Ed. 556; U. S. v. Ellis (D. C.) 51 Fed. 808; State v. Townley, 18 N. J. Law, 311. This phrase, in a statute, does not include alcohol, which is not a liquor of any kind. State v. Martin, 34 Ark. 340. ARDOUR. In old English law. An in cendiary; a house burner. ARE. A surface measure in the French law, in the form of a square, equal to 1076.441 square feet. AREA. An inclosed yard or opening In a house; an open place adjoining a house. 1 Chit. Pr. 176. In the civil law. A vacant space In a city; a place not built upon. Dig. 50, 16, 211. The site of a house; a site for building; the space where a house has stood. The ground on which a house is built, and which remains after the house is removed. Bris sonius; Calvin. ARENALES. In Spanish law. Sandy beaches; or grounds on the banks of rivers. White, Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6. ARENDATOR. A farmer or renter; in some provinces of Russia, one who farms the public rents or revenues;' a "crown arenda tor" is one who rents an estate belonging to the crown. ARENIFODINA. In the civil law. A sand-pit. Dig. 7, 1, 13, 5. ARENTARE. Lat. To rent; to let out at a certain rent Cowell. Arentatio. A renting. AREOPAGITE. In ancient Greek law. A lawyer or chief judge of the Areopagus in capital matters in Athens; a tribunal so called after a hill or slight eminence, in a street of that city dedicated to Mars, where the court was held in which those judges were wont to sit. Wharton. ARCTA ET SALVA

ARG. An abbreviation of arguendo. ARGENT. In heraldry. Silver. ARGENTARIT7S. In the Roman law, a money lender or broker; a dealer in money; a banker. Argentarium, the instrument of the loan, similar to the modern word "bond" or "note." A money porter in the English exchequer, who carries the money from the lower to the upper ex chequer to be examined and tested. Spel man. ARGENTEUS. An old French coin, an swering nearly to the English shilling. Spelman. ARGENTUM. Silver; money. —Argentum album. Bullion; uncoined sil ver ; common silver coin.; silver coin worn smooth. Cowell; Spelman.—Argentum Dei. God's money; God's penny; money given as earnest in making a bargain. Cowell. ARGUENDO. In arguing; in the course of the argument. A statement or observa tion made by a judge as a matter of argu ment or illustration, but not directly bearing upon the case at bar, or only incidentally in volved in it, is said (in the reports) to be made arguendo, or, in the abbreviated form, org. ARGUMENT. In rhetoric and logic, an inference drawn from premises, the truth of which is indisputable, or at least highly prob able. The argument of a demurrer, special case, ap peal, or other proceeding involving a question of law, consists of the speeches of the opposed counsel; namely, the "opening" of the counsel having the right to begin, (q. v.,) the speech of his opponent, and the "reply" of the first coun sel. It answers to the trial of a question, of fact. Sweet. But the submission of printed briefs may technically constitute an argument. Malcomb v. Hamill, 65 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 506; State v. California Min. Co., 13 Nev. 209. ARGUMENT AB INCONVENIENTI. An argument arising from the inconvenience which the proposed construction of the law would create. ARGUMENTATIVE. In pleading. In direct; inferential. Steph. PI. 179. A pleading is so called in which the state ment on which the pleader relies Is implied instead of being expressed, or where it con tains, in addition to proper statements of facts, reasoning or arguments upon those facts and their relation to the matter in dis pute, such as should be reserved for presen tation at the trial. Argumentum a commnniter acciden tilras in jure frequens est. An argument ARGENTARIUS MILES.

ARETRO. In arrear; behind.

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written a retro.