In medical jurisprudence . A morbid condition of swooning, suffocation, or suspended animation, resulting in death if not relieved, produced by any serious interference with normal respiration (as. the inhalation […]
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ASPHYXIANT
A gas that causes a loss of consciousness or death when oxygen is choked out by it. It is common when working in small spaces. Oxygen level are reduced and […]
ASPHYXIATION
the term used to state that a person has died due to lack of oxygen or having too much carbon dioxide in their blood.
ASPIRATION
1. sucking up a fluid. 2. taking a liquid into the lungs while swallowing or being sick.
ASPORTATION
The removal of things from one place to another. Hie carrying away of goods; one of the circumstances requisite to constitute the offense of larceny. 4 Bl. Comm. 231. Wilson […]
ASPORTAVIT
He carried away. Sometimes used as a noun to denote a carrying away. An “asportavit of personal chattels .” 2 II. Bl. 4.
ASSACH
In old Welsh law. An oath made by compurgators. Brown.
ASSAILANT
This term is used to describe a person who assaults another person.
ASSART
In English law . The offense committed in the forest, by pulling up the trees by the roots that are thickets and coverts for deer, and making the ground plain […]
ASSASSINATION
Murder committed for hire, without provocation or cause of resentment given to the murderer by the person upon whom the crime is committed. Ersk. Inst. 4, 4, 4.”i. A murder […]
ASSATH
An ancient custom in Wells, by which a person accused of crime could clear himself by the oaths of three hundred men. It. was abolished by St. 1 Hen. V. […]
ASSAULT
An unlawful attempt or offer. on the part of one man, with force or violence, to inflict a bodily hurt upon another. An attempt or offer to beat another, without […]
ASSAULT AND BATTERY
the legal expression that is sussed to describe the attack of one person against another that results in some sort of bodily injury .
ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO MURDER
This term is used to describe an attack that is carried with malice aforethought and has the intent to kill someone.
ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO ROB
This term is used to describe an attack that causes bodily injury that is accompanied by the intention of committing a robbery.
ASSAY
The proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the purity or fineness of metals,
ASSAY OFFICE
The staff of persons by whom (or the building in whicht the process of assaying gold and silver, required by government, incidental to maintaining the coinage, is conducted.
ASSAY TON
The amount of ore taken that is close to the 2000 pound ton.
ASSAYER
One whose business it is to make assays of the precious metals .
ASSAYER OF THE KING
An officer of the royal mint, appointed by St 2 Hen. VI. c. 12, who received and tested the bullion taken in for coining; also called “assayator regis.” Cowell ; […]
ASSECURARE
To assure, or make secure by pledges, or any solemn interposition of faith. Cowell; Spelman.
ASSECURATION
In European law. Assurance; insurance of a vessel, freight, or cargo. Ferriere.
ASSECURATOR
In maritime law . An insurer, (aversor periculi.) Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 2, c. 5,
ASSEDATION
In Scotch law. An old term, used Indiscriminately to signify a lease or feu-right. Bell; Ersk. Inst. 2, 6, 20.
ASSEMBLAGE
Taking two pieces of land and combining them for sale. The price is higher due to more land being sold.