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GLOSSARY OF LATIN WORDS.
Aberemurdrum | Manifest murder. | |
Abettare, etc. | See' Abbettare, etc. | |
Abeyantia | Abeyance. Property is in abeyance when it is in expectation, in the intendment of the law, not in actual possession. | |
Abgatoria, or Abgetorium | The alphabet ; rudiments of a science. | |
Abigevus | Cattle stealer. See Abactor. | |
Abjudicare | To take away by judicial sentence. | |
Abjurare | To renounce the realm for ever. | |
Absoniare | To shun, or avoid. | |
Abutare | See Abbottare. | |
Accapitare, or Accaptare | To pay a relief. | |
Accapitis | A relief. | |
Accapitum, or | ||
Aceaptamentum | ||
Accessorius | Guilty of a felonious offence, not principally, but by participation. | |
Accola | A colonist, cultivator of land where he was not born. | |
Accompliamentum | Accomplishment. | |
Acephali | Persons who acknowledged neither king nor church, temp. Hen. I. | |
Achaptare | See Accapitare. | |
Achersetus | A measure of corn, conjectured to be a quarter. | |
Acquietantia | A discharge in writing, of money paid or debt due ; quittance. | |
Acquietare | To pay ; to free or discharge. | |
Acquirere, or Adquirere | To purchase ; to acquit. | |
Acra | An acre of land; a judicial combat, holm-gang. | |
Acroisia | Blindness. For Aorisia. | |
Actachiare | See Attachiare. | |
Actilia | Armour and weapons ; gear. | |
Actio | A legal demand of a right. | |
Actionare | To prosecute. | |
Actor | Proctor or advocate in civil courts. | |
Actor dominicus | The bailiff or attorney of a lord. | |
Actor ecclesise | The advocate or pleading patron of a church. | |
Actor villa | The steward or head bailiff of a town or village. | |
Actornatus | See Attornatus. | |
Actuarius | The clerk who registers the acts of convocation. | |
Acustuniabilis, or | Accustomable, liable to custom. | |
Acustumatus | ||
Acustumare | To exact custom ; to exempt from custom. | |
Adbreviare | See' Abbreviare. | |
Adcredulitare | To purge oneself of an accusation by oath. | |
Additio | A title setting forth a person's estate, degree, trade, &c. | |
Addressare ; addresciare | To redress. | |
Adjornamentum, or | Adjournment, putting off to another day or place. | |
Adjournamentum |