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1. † abandum, n. View full entry 1729
...Anything which is sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned....
2. accompliceship, n. View full entry 1795
...The fact or state of being an accomplice; complicity....
3. accrual, n. View full entry 1768
...The action or process of accrue; (Law) = accretion5(b) (now rare); (also) an instance of this. Cf. accruement...
4. accusatorial, adj. View full entry 1788
...Of, relating to, or characterized by accusation; accusing, reproachful. Also in early use: prosecutorial....
5. action, v. View full entry 1734
...trans. To bring a legal action against. Now chiefly Caribbean....
6. actionably, adv. View full entry 1792
...So as to give cause for legal action....
7. adeem, v. View full entry 1771
...trans. To make ineffective (a specific bequest in a will) by the sale or disposal of the property specifically bequeathed before the death of the testator. Also intr....
8. adjudging, adj. View full entry 1705
...That adjudges (in various senses of the verb); that provides adjudication....
9. adjudicature, n. View full entry 1783
...The process of adjudicating; adjudication....
10. admissibility, n. View full entry 1765
...The quality of being admissible (in various senses). Cf. admissibleness...
11. admortization, n. View full entry 1753
...The transfer of property to a corporation in mortmain; an instance of this; = amortization1. Obs.hist.rare....
12. advisory, adj. and n. View full entry 1751
...Having the function of or responsibility for giving advice; characterized by the giving of advice; (sometimes) spec. having or consisting in the power to make recommendations, without necessarily being empowered...
13. aldermanic, adj. View full entry 1748
...Of or relating to an alderman or aldermen; characteristic of an alderman or an alderman's supposed habit of life....
14. aldermanly, adj. View full entry 1728
...= aldermanlike...
15. alienability, n. View full entry 1707
...The quality of being alienable; ability to be transferred to the ownership of another....
16. alio intuitu, adv. View full entry 1778
...With another consideration; esp. with a motive or intention other than, or in addition to, that professed....
17. † all-hood, n. View full entry 1722
...Absolute ownership; entire estate (estate11a). Chiefly in the context of feudal property. Cf. allodium...
18. allide, v. View full entry 1721
...intr. To hit against something. Now Maritime Law: (of a vessel) to collide with another which is stationary, or with a static object or structure....
19. allocutus, n. View full entry a1701
...A formal demand made by a judge of a person convicted in a criminal case as to whether there is any reason for the court not to proceed to judgement....
20. allodialist, n. View full entry 1775
...An allodial landowner; a person who holds land in allod. Cf. allodial2, allodiary...
