In English law . Articles agreed to, A. D. 1707, by the parliaments of England and Scotland, for the union of the two kingdoms. They were twenty-five in number. 1 […]
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ARTICLES OF WAR
Codes framed for the government of a nation’s army are commonly thus called.
ARTICLES, LORDS OF
A committee of the Scottish parliament , which, in the mode of its election, and by the nature of its powers, was calculated to increase the influence of the crown, […]
ARTICULATE ADJUDICATION
In Scotch law. Where the creditor holds several distinct debts, a separate adjudication for each claim is thus called.
ARTICULATED PLEADING
This applies to the setting forth of a complaint or the defense against a complaint in separate clauses or articles that each specify a particular issue in the case.
ARTICULATELY
Article by article; by distinct clauses or articles; by separate propositions.
ARTICULI
Lat. Articles; items or heads. A term applied to some old English statutes, and occasionally to treatises.
ARTICULI CLERI
Articles of the clergy , (q. v.)
ARTICULI DE MONETA
Articles concerning money, or the currency. The title of a statute passed in the twentieth year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 228; Crabb, Eng. Law, (Amer. Ed.) […]
ARTICULI MAGNAE CHARTAE
The preliminary articles, forty-nine in number, upon which the Magna Charta was founded.
ARTICULI SUPER CHARTAS
Articles upon the charters. The title of a statute passed in the twenty-eighth year of Edward I. st. 3, confirming or enlarging many particulars in Magna dliarta, and the Charta […]
ARTICULO MORTIS
(Or more commonly in articulo mortis .) In the article of death; at the point of death.
ARTIFACT
1. an object that is hand made or the result of human activity. 2. extra data used in the data collection process .
ARTIFICE
This term applies to any trick or a cunning device that is used.
ARTIFICER
One who buys goods in order to reduce them, by his own art or industry, into other forms, and then to sell them. Lansdale v. Brashear, 3 T. B. Mou. […]
ARTIFICIAL
Created by art, or by fav; existing only by force of or in contemplation of law.
ARTIFICIAL COLLECTION
Records collected and filed the way an archivist decides is best. It is a term compared with archival collection .
ARTIFICIAL DAY
The time between the rising and setting of the sun; that is. day or daytime as distinguished from night.
ARTIFICIAL FORCE
In patent law . A natural force so transformed in character or energies by human power as to possess new capabilities of action; this transformation of a natural force into […]
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
a method of causing pregnancy where semen from an anonymous donor in injected into a woman’s uterus.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A software used to make computers and robots work better than humans. The systems are rule based or neutral networks. It is used to help make new products, robotics, human […]
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
A computerized practice run of a real life even. Refer to cellular automata.
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NET (ANN)
A computer model that simulates human brain function. They are used in pattern recognition , robitic vision, and decision making with fuzz input.
ARTIFICIAL PERSON
A nonhuman entity that is created by law and is legally different owning its own rights and duties. AKA jusistic person and legal person. Refer to body corporate .
ARTIFICIAL PERSONS
Persons created and devised by human laws for the purposes of society and government, as distinguished from natural persons. Corporations are examples of artificial persons . 1 HI. Comm. 123. […]