ABET

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ABOLITION

Abet. To encourage, incite, promote or procure a crime.

Abettans. Abetting.

Abettare. To abet ; an abettor.

Abbettator. An abbettor.

Abbettor. One who aids, abets, en courages, or incites a crime ; an accomplice.

Abeyance. In expectation, remem brance and intendment of law. (An estate is in abeyance when present in no man, but belonging to him who is next to enjoy it).

Abiaticus. A grandson.

Abide. To dwell ; to sojourn. To await ; to support ; to suffer.

Abide by. To obey, to conform to.

Abiding by. In Scotch law, the judicial declaration of a party that he abides by a deed which has been attacked as forged, at his peril.

Abiding conviction. The settled con viction of guilt which may follow a thorough examination of all the evidence in a cause.

Abigeat. The crime of stealing cattle by driving them away in herds.

Abigeator. A cattle stealer.

Abigeatus. The offense of cattle steal ing.

Abigei. Persons who stole cattle.

Abigere. In Civil and Scotch law, to drive away ; applied to cattle stealing.

Abigere. To drive out. To produce abortion.

Abigeus. A cattle stealer.

Abigo. To drive away. (Applied to abigcators).

Ability. Capacity. State of being able ; power to do anything. Legal capacity.

Abitio. A going away.

Abishering. Same as Abishersing.

Abishersing. Immunity from, being quit of, amerciaments.

Abjectire. To lose a cause by default or neglect to prosecute.

Abjudicare. To deprive of a thing by the decision of a court.

Abjudicate. To give away by judg ment.

Abjudicatio. Depriving by judgment.

Abjudication. The depriving of a thing by the judgment of a court, Rejection.

Abjudicatus. Forejudged.

Abjudico. To give sentence against one.

Abjurare. To forswear ; to renounce or abandon upon oath.

Abjuratio. Abjuration.

Abjuratio Regni. Abjuration of the Realm.

Abjuration. A renunciation upon oath.

Abjuration of allegiance. The re nunciation of allegiance to one sovereign preparatory to taking the oath of allegiance to another.

Abjuration of the Realm. An oath taken to forsake the realm forever. (An ciently a person accused of any crime, ex cept treason or sacrilege, who took refuge? in a church or other sanctuary, might save his life by confessing his offense and swearing to forsake the realm).

Abjure. To deny anything on oath.

Abjuro. To abjure.

Able-bodied. Absence of defects which incapacitate to the performance of a certain duty. ,

Ablegate. To send out. An envoy of the Pope.

Ablegatus. Same as Ablegate. ' Ablocation. In Roman law, a hiring out for money.

Abmatertera. A great great grand mother's sister.

Abnepos. A great great grandson.

Abneptis. A great great granddaughter.

Abnormal. Irregular ; departing from a fixed rule. A term applied to law affect ing persons not under natural relations or conditions, as if insane or under age.

Abnormis. Abnormal.

Abode. Habitation, dwelling place.

Abolition. Annulling ; effacing ; abro-