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  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    i.e. I call to my aid, or defense. The Roman Advocates answered to one part of the office of a lawyer among us, viz. the pleading part; for as to giving counsel, they never meddled with it: that being the business of the jurisconsults. See...

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

  • ADVOWEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWEE

    ADVOWEE, or Avower, or Advocate of a Church, was heretofore the Patron, or Defender of the Rights thereof. See ADVOCATE, PATRON, etc. The word is French, Advoué, or Avoué, of the verb Avouer, to avow, own, acknowledge dependence, subjection, etc. ——...

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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    be more present and attentive, and that no object, either of pity or aversion, might make any impression upon them. All pleadings before them, were to be in thesimplest and most naked terms; without exordium, epilogue, passions, etc. See EXORDIUM,...

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

  • AVERMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERMENT

    and particular.—A general Averment is the Conclusion of every Plea to the Writ, or in Bar of Replications, or other Pleadings; (for Counts, or Avowries in Nature of Counts, need not be averred,) containing Matter affirmative, ought to be averred with an...

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

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

    ATTORNEY, Attornatus, in law, a person appointed by another to do something in his stead; particularly to solicit and carry on a lawsuit. See AGENT, DEPUTY, etc. See also CAUSE, PROCESS, ACTION, etc. Attorneys in common law are much the same with...

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

  • ARRESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARREST

    ARREST, in common Law,an Execution of the Command of some Court, or Officer of Justice—Hence, when a Person is legally stopped, apprehended, and restrained of his Liberty, for Debt, etc. he is said to be arrested, or put under an Arrest; which is the...

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

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

    VICOUNT, SHERIFF, &c. Hence, the Term Assize came to be extended to all grand Days of Judgment, at which the Trials and Pleadings were to be solemn and extraordinary. The modern Constitution of Assizes is pretty different from that hitherto spoke of—Our...

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

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    See HEARING, ATTENTION, and AUDITORY. AUDITOR is also used for several officers, appointed to audit, or hear accounts, pleadings, etc. See ACCOUNT. Anciently the word AUDITOR was also used for judge, and even for inquisitor. Notaries are also frequently...

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

  • AVOIDANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVOIDANCE

    in Law, has two Significations: The one, when a Benefice becomes void of an Incumbent; the other, when we say in Pleadings in Chancery, contested or avoided, traversed or denied, etc. See VACANCY. AVOIDANCE

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

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    Capias, Exigent, &c. to which belong Appearance, Attorney, Bail, Essoign, Default, Nonsuit, Arraignment, &c. 2°, Pleading ; whence Count, Declaration, Aid Praier, Voucher, Age Prier, Bar, Abate, Release, Replication, Outlawry, Sequestration, &c. 3°,...

    • Type: Category

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

    Capias, Exigent, &c. to which belong Appearance, Attorney, Bail, Essoign, Default, Nonsuit, Arraignment, &c. 2°, Pleading ; whence Count, Declaration, Aid Praier, Voucher, Age Prier, Bar, Abate, Release, Replication, Outlawry, Sequestration, &c. 3°,...

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

  • ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE

    Tenants holding by Charter cannot be rightfully impleaded out of their Manor; and when they are, may abate the Writ by pleading the Tenure. 2. They are free from Toll for all things relating to their Livelihood and Husbandry; nor can be impaneled on any...

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

  • ANSWERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANSWER

    See RESPONSE, RESPOND, BILL, PLEADING, REPLICATION, etc. ANSWER

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

  • APPRENTICEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPRENTICE

    Finch in his Nomotechnia writes himself Apprentice de Ley: Sir Edward Coke in his Institutes says, Apprenticii Legis in pleading are called Homines consiliarii, i.e., Legis periti; and in another place, Apprentices and other Counsellors of Law....

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

  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    ACADEMICKS, Academici, Academists, a Sect of ancient Philosophers, founded by Plato, and called, also, the Academy. See ACADEMY. The Academicks, in the later Ages, have taken the Name of Platonists. See PLATONIST. The great Dogma of the Academics was...

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

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

    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...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

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

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    ARMONIACK, or rather Ammoniac, in natural History, a sort of volatile Salt; whereof there are two Kinds; ancient and modern. See SALT. The ancient Sal Ammoniac, called also Sal Cyrenaica, described by Pliny and Dioscorides, was a native Salt, generated...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ABSTEMIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTEMIOUS

    ABSTEMIOUS, is properly understood of such Persons as refrain absolutely from Wine. Pliny more expresly says, Vini abstemius ; and Apuleius, Invinius. In the Religious Sense of the Word, they are said to be Abstemious, who in the Sacrament of the Supper...

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

  • ASSISAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSISA

    ASSISA, or Assize, Assize. See ASSIZE. ASSISA CADERE,to fall from the Assize, in Law, is to be non-suited. See NON-SUIT. Assisa Cadit in Furatam,is where the Thing in Controversy is so doubtful, that it must necessarily be tried by a Jury. See JURY....

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