Animal. Any animate thing not human endowed with power of voluntary motion.-Bouv.

Animalia fera, si facta sint mansu

eta et ex consuetudine eunt et redeunt volant et revolant, ut cervi, cygni, etc., eo usque nostra sunt et ita intelliguntur quamdiu habuerunt animum revertendi. Wild animals, if they are tamed and are accustomed to go forth and to return, to fly out and fly back, such as deer, swans, etc., we understand to be ours as long as they have the intention to return. See 7 Coke, 16. Animo. With intent.

Animo cancellandi. With intent to repudiate or cancel.

Animo custodiendi. With intent to take care of.

Animo defamandi. With intent to defame.

Animo differendi. With intent to delay.

Animo donandi. With the intention

ANNONAE

Animo remanendi. With intent to stay away.

Animo republicandi. With the intention of republishing.

Animo revertendi. With a disposition to come back.

Animo testandi. With the intention of making a will. See 28 Am. St. Rep. 495.

Animus. Mind; intent.

Animus ad se omne jus dicit. Every law is addressed to the spirit of the thing.

Animus hominis est anima scripti The intention of a man is the spirit of his writing.

Ann. The amount of a minister's stipend due his heir upon his death; year.

Ann. Cas. American
Cases.

Annotated

Annals. The Year-books.
Annates. The first year's profits

paid to the pope by the holder of
a benefice.

Anne. Queen of England from 1702 to 1714; year.

Annexation. The affixing of chattels to land in such manner that they become in law a part of it. See 14 Cal. 64.

Anni et Tempora. An old name for the Year-books.

Anni nubiles. Marriageable age of a girl.

Anniculus. A one year old child. Anniculus trecentesimo sexagesimo

quinto die dicitur, incipiente plane non exacto die, quia annum civiliter non ad momenta temporum sed ad dies numeramur. A child is said to be a year old on the 365th day, after the beginning of the day, not at the end of it, because we reckon the civil year not by moments, but by days. Anniented.

naught.

Abrogated; set at

Anno Domini. In the year of our Lord; since the birth of Christ.

Annona. Yearly contributions

With intent to re

Animo morandi. With intent to delay.

Animo possidendi. With intent to

of

ANNOYANCE

Annoyance. A nuisance.

Annua nec deditem judex non separat ipse. A judge himself does not sever either a debt or an annuity.

Annuities of tiends. Annuities of titles.

Annuity. A personal obligation to

make a certain annual payment. See 24 N. J. Eq. 358.

Annuity tax. An annual tax levied in Scotland for the support of ministers of the gospel.

Annul. To nullify; to set at naught; to make void. See 22 Mo. 24. Annulus et baculus. The ring and the staff, symbols used in the investiture of a bishop. Annus. A year.

Annus deliberandi. The year which the Scotch law gives the heir to determine whether he will take an inheritance.

Annus est mora motus quo suum

planeta pervolat circulum. A year is the time of motion in which a planet revolves in its orbit. Annus et dies. A year and a day. Annus inceptus pro completo habetur.

The beginning of a year is considered to be the completion of it. Annus luctus. The year of mourning immediately succeeding a husband's death and during which his widow could not remarry. See 1 Bl. Comm. 456.

Annuus reditus. An annuity; an annual rent.

Annus utilis. A year of advantage. Anoyer. To annoy.

Answer. A pleading by way of defense raising an issue of fact. Antapocha. A signed acknowledgment of a debt by which debtor is bound.

Ante. Before.

the

of the plaintiff that he would prosecute and of the defendant that he was innocent.

Antenati. Those born prior to a

great political event; those born here before the Declaration of Independence.

Antichrisis. A Roman pledge under which the lender took the use of the property in lieu of interest. Anticipation. The premature doing of an act.

Antigraph. A copy.

Antigraphus. A Roman officer who supervised the control of public moneys.

Antinomia. A real or apparent contradiction in a law.

Antiqua custuma. Certain statutory duties on wool and leather. Antiqua Statuta. English statutes from 1189 to 1327.

Antiquare. To preserve the old law, a Roman law term. Antiquum dominicum.

mesne.

Ancient de

Antithetarius. One seeking to escape punishment for a crime by charging his accuser therewith. Antrustio. A confidential vassal. Apartment. A part of a house occupied by one person while the rest is occupied by another or others. See 10 Pick. (Mass.) 293. Apatisatio. A contract. Aperta brevia. Unsealed writs. Apertum factum. An overt act. Apertus. Open.

Apex juris. A subtlety of the law. Aphasia. A mental affliction where

by one loses comprehension of the sense of words and of familiar objects.

Apices juris non sunt jus. The ex

tremes of the law are not the law. See 6 L. R. A. (N. S.) 494.

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APICES

Apices litigandi. Extremes of the law.

Apiscimur possessionem animo et corpore, neque per se animo aut per se corpore. We obtain possession of a thing with both the mind and the body, not with the mind alone nor with the body alone. Apocae. A receipt for payment. Apochae oneratoriae. Bills of lading.

Apocrisarius. A messenger; an ambassador.

Apostata capiendo. A writ under which an apostate was seized by the sheriff and brought before the abbott.

Apostles. Letters granted to an appellant in admiralty stating that the record will be transmitted. Apostoli. See Apostles. Apothecary. One who makes a business of compounding and selling drugs. See 72 Ky. 569.

Apparator. A process server of the ecclesiastical courts.

Apparent heir. One who will inherit if he survive the ancestor. Apparent maturity. The time when a negotiable paper on its face appears to be due. Apparere. To appear. Apparitio. An appearance. Apparitor. See Apparator. Apparura. Furniture; implements. Appeal. The transfer of a cause to a higher court for review or for a new trial, used also to denote "Appeal of felony."

Appeal of felony. An old English proceeding in the nature of a private prosecution wherein a relative of the injured or deceased person was usually the plaintiff or appellant.

Appear. Under statute requiring firm name to appear conspicuously on place of business, word means obvious and manifest. See Ann. Cas. 1913B, 913. Appearance. A notification that a party to an action or his attor

APPOINTMENT

Appearance day. The day on which or before which one must appear. See 26 S. W. (Tex.) 282. Appearned heir. See Apparent Heir. Appellant. One who files an appeal; the complaining party in an ap peal of felony.

Appellate. Pertaining to appeals. Appellate jurisdiction. Jurisdiction to hear and determine an appeal from a lower court. See 65 Mo. App. 543.

Appellatio. An appeal.

Appellee. One against whom

a

cause is appealed; the defendant in an appeal of felony.

Appello. I appeal; the Roman law form of making an appeal. Appellor. One who prosecutes an appeal; one who accuses his confederates in crime.

Appellour. An appealing party. Appendant. Affixed or belonging to something more important. Appenditia. Appurtenances. Appensura. Payment in money by weight.

Appertinances. An old form of appurtenances.

Appliances of transportation. Roadbed, tracks, cars, engines, and all other machinery and equipment furnished by the carrier and used in connection with the conduct and management of its business, but not including property of passenger brought by him into a car. See Ann. Cas. 1913B, 811. Applicare. To fasten, to moor a ship.

Applicatio est vita regulae.

The ap

plication is the life of a rule. Application. A petition or request. Application of payments. The credit

by the creditor of payments made on account of a particular indebtedness or part thereof. See 94 N. Y. 467.

Appointee. One who has been appointed to an office or trust.

person to some office or trust.

one who was governed by law and equity in his decisions rather than by his own judgment. Arbitration and award. A plea raising the defense that the matter has been settled by an arbitration.

Arbitramentum aequum tribuit cuique suum. A just arbitration renders to each what is his. Arbitrary. That which is decided

by the judge on his own judgment and not under a statute. Arbitration. The submission of a cause to an arbitrator. See 42 Am. St. Rep. 200.

Arbitration of exchange. Payment

in one country by a bill of exchange drawn upon another. Arbitrator. One chosen to decide a controversy out of court by mutual consent. See 57 Am. St. Rep. 312.

Arbitrium. An arbitration award. Arbitrium est judicium. An award

ARGUMENTUM

Archaionomia. A compilation of Saxon law published about 1600. Archbishop. The head of the ecclesiastical power in his province. Archdeacon. An ecclesiastical officer subordinate to a bishop. Archdeacon's court. An English ecclesiastical court with jurisdiction in probate, administration and ecclesiastical matters within the archdeaconry. See 3 Bl. Comm. 64. Archery. A feudal service of main

taining a bow for the defense of the castle.

Arches court. An ecclesiastical court of appeal and of original jurisdiction. Archetype. An original document. Archiepiscopus. An archbishop. Arcta et salva custodia. In safe custody.

Ardour. An incendiary.

Area. An open space within a house or an adjoining inclosure. Arenales. Sandy beaches. Arenifodina. In Roman law, a sandpit.

Arentare. To rent.

Arer et semer. To plough and sow. Aretro. In arrears.

Arg. Abbreviation for arguendo. Argentarii. Money lenders. Argentarius. A money lender; a banker.

Argentarius miles. A porter who

carried money in the exchequer. Argentum. Silver.

Argentum album. Uncoined silver; silver coin.

Argentum dei. An earnest given to bind a bargain.

Arguendo. In argument; by way of argument.

Argumentative. Inferential. Argumentum. Argument. Argumentum a communiter accidentibus in jure frequens est. An argument from common occurrences is frequent in law.

Argumentum a divisione est fortissimum in lege. An argument from a division of the matter is very strong in law.

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