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  • ATTACHINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTACHING

    or ATTACHMENT, in law, the taking or apprehending a person or thing by commandment or writ. See COMMANDMENT and WRIT. The word is formed of the French attacher, to fasten, tie; and that from the corrupt Latin attachiare, of attexere, to weave to; or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    is when a man has committed felony, or treason, and judgment is passed upon him. See FELONY and TREASON. The children of a person attainted of treason cannot be heirs to him, or any other ancestor; and if he were noble before, his posterity are hereby...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ASSURANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSURANCE

    See SECURITY. ASSURANCE, Or INSURANCE, in Commerce. See INSURANCE. Policy of ASSURANCE, is a Contract whereby one or more Persons oblige themselves to make good any Damages which a Ship, a House, or the like, may undergo, by Sea, Fire, or the like...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ANCESTORShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCESTORS

    Progenitors; or those from whom a Person is descended. See PROGENITOR. The Word is derived from the Latin Ancestor, wrote, by Contraction, for Antecessor, gone before. The Law distinguishes between Ancestor and Predecessor; the former being applied to a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABDICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ABDICATION

    the Act whereby a Magistrate, or Person in Office renounces and gives up the same, for himself and his Heirs. See RENUNCIATION. Abdication is frequently confounded with Resignation ; but, strictly speaking, there is a difference : Abdication being done...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • ACCUSATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCUSATION

    of the Publick. See ACTION, and CRIMINAL. By the Roman Law, there was no publick Accuser for publick Crimes; every private Person, whether interested in the Crime or not, might accuse, and prosecute the Accused to Punishment or Absolution. But the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    declare, and affirm."Which is the form now used, in the same manner, and under the same limitation with the former. Any person deposing, upon his solemn affirmation, a known falsehood, incurs the penalty of willful and corrupt perjury. See PERJURY....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    on Alexander at his Recovery from an Illness, and discoursing with him as he walked about. See PERIPATETIC. He was a Person of admirable Genius, and of great and various Learning: Averroes makes no Scruple to call him 'the Genius of Nature, the Limit of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATCHIEVEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ATCHIEVEMENT

    in Heraldry, the Coat of Arms of any Person or Family; duly marshalled with its external ornaments, as Supporters, Helmet, Wreath, Crest, and Motto. See COAT and ARMS. See also SUPPORTER, HELMET, etc. Such are usually hung out on the Fronts of Houses...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Heraldry

  • ARCHPRIESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHPRIEST

    established in some dioceses, with a pre-eminence over the rest. See PRIEST. Anciently, the archpriest was the first person after thebishop, and even acted as his vicar, in his absence, as toall spiritual concerns. In the sixth century, there...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMENDE Honorablehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMENDE%20Honorable

    beg pardon of God, the King, or the Court, for some ill deed. The Phrase 'amende honorable' is more peculiarly used where a Person is condemned to come into Court, or into the Presence of some Person injured; and make an open Recantation, etc. AMENDE...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    in institute, Code, Novel, Register, Pandect, Corpus, Domesday, &c. Kinds, Civil, Canon, Sumptuary, &c. Respecting, 1°, Persons, as the King; his Prerogative, Royalties, &c. viz. granting Dispensation, Pardon, Commendam, Exemption. Dignities'...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    sunk to one-fourth of its original duration. Age, in Law, is often understood as a certain state or time of life, wherein a person is qualified to do something, which before, due to lack of years, and consequently discretion, they could not. See MAJOR,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGENT

    what are known as Exchange-Brokers in other contexts. See BROKER and EXCHANGE. Agent and Patient in Common Law refers to a person who performs an action or gives something to himself. An example is a woman who endows herself with part of her husband's...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    into the Liquor in several succeeding Bubbles; and even through the Liquor into the open Air, Ubi supra. The same excellent Person further assures us, he procured a really elastic Substance from divers other Matters; as Bread, Grapes, Must, Ale, Apples,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ALIENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIEN

    in Law, a Person born out of the King’s Allegiance, and consequently not capable of inheriting Lands in England, till naturalized by Act of Parliament. See NATURALIZATION.Of these there are two Kinds, viz. Alien-Friends, who are of those Countries which...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ALVUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALVUS

    for the State, and Condition of the Feces, or Excrements contained within that Cavity. See EXCREMENT, etc. Thus, when a Person is laxative, it is called Alvus liquida; and when costive, Aluus adstricta. See COSTIVE, LAXATIVE, etc. ALVUS

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    SPIRIT. The Word Angel, is not properly a Denomination of Nature, but of Office; denoting as much as Nuntius, Messenger, a Person employed to carry one’s Orders, or declare his Will.—Thus it is St. Paul represents Angels, Heb. 1. 14, where he calls them...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    passed by Ecclesiastical Judges. See SECULAR. The Church sheds no Blood: Even the Inquisition, after they have found the Person guilty, surrenders him to the secular Arm. See INQUISITION. The Council of Antioch, held in 341, decrees, that Recourse be...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARMORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMOR

    the General Officers, and those of the Cavalry, were obliged to resume the Cuirass.—Coat-Armour, is the Escutcheon of any Person, or Family, with its several Charges, and other Furniture, as Mantling, Crest, Supporters, Motto, etc. See ESCUTCHEON,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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