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GLOSSARY OF LATIN WORDS.
Aberemurdrum Manifest murder.
Abettare, etc. See' Abbettare, etc.
Abeyantia Abeyance. Property is in abeyance when it is in expectation, in the intendment of the law, not in actual possession.
Abgatoria, or Abgetorium The alphabet ; rudiments of a science.
Abigevus Cattle stealer. See Abactor.
Abjudicare To take away by judicial sentence.
Abjurare To renounce the realm for ever.
Absoniare To shun, or avoid.
Abutare See Abbottare.
Accapitare, or Accaptare To pay a relief.
Accapitis
A relief.
Accapitum, or
Aceaptamentum
Accessorius Guilty of a felonious offence, not principally, but by participation.
Accola A colonist, cultivator of land where he was not born.
Accompliamentum Accomplishment.
Acephali Persons who acknowledged neither king nor church, temp. Hen. I.
Achaptare See Accapitare.
Achersetus A measure of corn, conjectured to be a quarter.
Acquietantia A discharge in writing, of money paid or debt due ; quittance.
Acquietare To pay ; to free or discharge.
Acquirere, or Adquirere To purchase ; to acquit.
Acra An acre of land; a judicial combat, holm-gang.
Acroisia Blindness. For Aorisia.
Actachiare See Attachiare.
Actilia Armour and weapons ; gear.
Actio A legal demand of a right.
Actionare To prosecute.
Actor Proctor or advocate in civil courts.
Actor dominicus The bailiff or attorney of a lord.
Actor ecclesise The advocate or pleading patron of a church.
Actor villa The steward or head bailiff of a town or village.
Actornatus See Attornatus.
Actuarius The clerk who registers the acts of convocation.
Acustuniabilis, or
Accustomable, liable to custom.
Acustumatus
Acustumare To exact custom ; to exempt from custom.
Adbreviare See' Abbreviare.
Adcredulitare To purge oneself of an accusation by oath.
Additio A title setting forth a person's estate, degree, trade, &c.
Addressare ; addresciare To redress.
Adjornamentum, or
Adjournment, putting off to another day or place.
Adjournamentum