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  • 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

  • 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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    or reinforcements of the proof arising from the circumstances of the fact. See CIRCUMSTANCE, etc. Adjunct is also used in civil concerns, for a colleague, or fellow-officer, associated to another, to assist him in his ministry, to share the functions...

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

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

    that the Action may rest till he comes to full age. This, the Court in most Cases, ought to grant. It is otherwise in the Civil Law; which obliges Children in their Minority to answer by their Tutors, or Curators. See TUTOR, CURATOR, MINORITY, PUPIL,...

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

  • 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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    Augmentation of other Animals. —Others suppose the sacred Cubit here spoke of, which was a Hand’s-breadth longer than the civil one: But this only affords a small Supply; besides, that the sacred Cubit does not appear to have been ever used, except in...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    Object, into Human, as Medicine; and divine, as Theology. See MEDICINE and THEOLOGY. Human, again, may be subdivided into Civil; as Law, Politics, etc, Military, as Fortification, etc. Physical, as Agriculture, Chemistry, Anatomy, etc. Metaphysical, as...

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

  • 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

  • ARCHONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARCHON

    Duoviri in the colonies and Municipia. See DUOVIR. The name Archon is also applied by some authors to various officers both civil and religious, under the Eastern or Greek Empire—Thus bishops are sometimes called Archons, and the same may be said of the...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    from that hitherto spoke of—Our Assize may be defined a Court, Place, or Time where, and when Writs and Processes, either civil or criminal, or both, are considered, dispatched, decided, etc. by Judges and Jury. See PROCESS, COURT, DAY, JURY, &c. In...

    • 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

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    to more or less particular; which, indeed, is a thing that embarrasses and amuses us on many other occasions: Thus in mere civil Histories, if one relates the Series of a Campaign, another the Bombardment of a Town, and a third the Wounding and Death of...

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

  • ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRAL

    cognizance, by himself, his lieutenant, or deputies, of all crimes committed on the sea, or the coasts thereof; and all the civil and marine transactions relating thereto: As also of what is done in all great ships, riding in any great river, beneath...

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

  • 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

  • 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
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