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  • ATTORNEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNEY

    also CAUSE, PROCESS, ACTION, etc. Attorneys in common law are much the same with Procurators, Proctors, or Syndics, in the civil law. See PROCURATOR, PROCTOR, etc. The word is compounded of the Latin ad, to; and the French tourner, to turn; q.d. to turn...

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

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    in Horace, Lib. I. Od. 14:O Navis, referent in mare te novi Fluctus, &c.Where the Ship, stands for the Republic; Waves, for Civil War; Port for Peace and Concord; Oars for Soldiers; Mariners for Magistrates, &c. The Old Testament is supposed by many to...

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

  • AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY

    after the same manner in Affinity, as in Consanguinity; and therefore differently in the Canon Law from what they are in the Civil Law. See DEGREE. The Word is formed of the Latin Affinis, Neighbour;of ad, and finis, Boundary, Limit. The Romanists talk...

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

  • ALMANACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMANACK

    very prudently decreed by an Ordonnance of 1579, that 'No Almanack-Maker should presume to give Predictions relating to Civil Affairs, either of States or private Persons, in Terms either express or covert,’ See ASTROLOGY. In the Philosoph. Collec. we...

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

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

    ACCUSATION, Accusatio, in the Civil Law, the initiating a criminal Action against any one, either in one's own Name, or that of the Publick. See ACTION, and CRIMINAL. By the Roman Law, there was no publick Accuser for publick Crimes; every private...

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

  • ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC

    was given by Niccolò Tartaglia, a Venetian, in 1556, consisting of two Books; the former, the Application of Arithmetic to civil Uses; the latter, the Grounds of Algebra. Something had been done before by Stifel, in 1544; where we have several...

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

  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION

    ABSOLUTIO, in the Civil Law, &c. a definitive Sentence, whereby a Person accused of any Crime, &c. is acquitted, and declared Innocent. Among the Romans, the ordinary Method of pronouncing Judgment was this : After the Cause had been pleaded on both...

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

  • AKONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/AKOND

    an Officer of Justice in Persia, who takes cog- nizance of the Causes of Orphans, and Widows; of Contracts, and other Civil Concerns—He is Head of the School of Law, and gives Lectures to all the subaltern Officers;he has his Deputies in all the Courts...

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

  • AGNATIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATI

    in Civil Law, a term used in respect of the male descendants of the same father, in different lines. See AGNATION. In this sense, the word is distinguished from Cognati. See COGNATE. AGNATI

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

  • ALCAIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCAID

    the Governor of a City in Barbary. See ALCAIDE.The Jurisdiction of the Alcaid is sovereign, both in Civil and Criminal Concerns; and Fines and Punishments lie wholly at his Door. The Word is formed of the Particle Al, and the Verb kad, or akad, to...

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

  • ARCHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHES

    the judge fromwhom the appeal was made. The Advocates who are allowed to plead in the ArchesCourt, are to be Doctors of the Civil Law, in one of ourUniversities. See ADVOCATE. ARCHES

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

  • ACQUESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACQUEST

    the Verb Acquerir, to acquire.—The French Laws make a great deal of difference between Acquests, and hereditary Effects. The Civil Law allows none. See HEIR, HEREDITARY, etc.The Word is also popularly used for Conquest, or Places acquired by the Sword....

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

  • ARBITERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARBITER

    in civil law, a judge nominated by the magistrate, or chosen voluntarily by two contending parties, on whom they confer a power, by compromise, of deciding their difference according to law. See FIDES and COMPROMISE. ARBITER

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

  • APHORISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APHORISM

    used in Medicine and Law. Thus we say the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, of Sanctorius, of Boerhaave, etc., Aphorisms of the Civil Law, etc. The Word comes from the Greek ἀφορισμός, of ἀφορίζω, separate, choose, i.e., choice, or select Sentences. See...

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

  • ADEMPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADEMPTION

    ADEMPTION, Ademption, in Civil Law, refers to the revocation of a Grant, Donation, or the like."The Ademption of a Legacy may be either Express; as when the Testator declares in a formal manner that he revokes what he had bequeathed: Or Tacit, as when...

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

  • ACCRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCRETION

    and thus, plants and animals are nourished. See PLANT and ANIMAL; see also NUTRITION. Accretion, Accrement, in the Civil Law, a vague or vacant portion of ground, joined or united with grounds held or possessed by another. A legacy given to two persons...

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

  • ADMINICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ADMINICLE

    Adminiculum, Adminiculatum, a term used in some ancient statutes, for aid, help, or support.See AID, etc. In the civil jurisprudence, adminiculum signifies the beginning of a proof; an imperfect proof; a circumstance or conjecture, tending to form or...

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

  • ACQUITTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACQUITTAL

    a Discharge, Deliverance, or setting free of a Person from the Guilt or Suspicion of an Offence.The like Discharge in Civil Concerns, is called an Acquittance.See ACQUITTANCE. Acquittal is of two Kinds; in Law, and in Fact.When two are appealed or...

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

  • ABROGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABROGATION

    or of abolishing or setting aside the Authority thereof.See LAW, REPEAL, &c. The Word, in this Sense, is borrow'd from the Civil Practice of the Romans, Among that People, to propose a Law to the People for their Approbation, was call'd Rogare Legem :...

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

  • ANTECESSORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECESSOR

    PREDECESSOR, etc. The Term is particularly used in some Universities for a Professor, who teaches, or lectures the Civil Law. ANTECESSOR

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