Edward Altman’s way to file bankruptcy. It measures how well a party can pay debts and prevent insolvency .

High and low. This phrase is applied to an agreement made between two contending parties to submit all matters in dispute, alto et basso , to arbitration . Cowell.

L. Lat. In old English law . The high sea, or seas. Co. Litt 2006. The deep sea. Super altum mare, on the high seas. Hob. 2120.

A group of graduate of a school. They are male and female. The male version is alumnus and the female is alumna.

A child which one has nursed ; a foster-child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. One educated at a college or seminary is called an “alumnus” thereof.

The bed or channel through which the stream flows when it runs within its ordinary channel. Calvin. Alveus derelictus, a deserted channel. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A term applied In England to the merger or consolidation of two incorporated companies or societies. In the case of the Empire Assurance Corporation , (1807,) L. R. 4 Eij. […]

A collection of sea-laws, compiled about the end of the eleventh century, by the people of Amalphl. It consists of the laws on maritime subjects, which were or had been […]

One who writes on behalf of another that which lie dictates.

An online shopping site that is very popular. It has books, electronics , music, furniture, and clothes. The user can buy an item from another user like ebay. It was […]

A messenger; a servant sent about; one whose services his master hired out. Spelman.

A person sent about In the service of another; a person sent on a service. A word of frequent occurrence in the writers of the middle ages. Spelman.

In International law . A public oflicer, clothed with high diplomatic powers, commissioned by a sovereign prince or state to transact the international business of his government at the court, […]

In old English law . A measure of four bushels.

The way a place feels due to the physical atmosphere. It is meant to make customers come again.

Skillful with both hands; one who plays on both sides. Applied anciently to an attorney who took pay from both sides, and subsequently to a juror guilty of the same […]

Weather or atmosphereic conditions in a place. It changes from day to day.

The maximum pollutants in a building and its surroundings.

An ambiguous answer is to be taken against (is not to be construed in favor of) him who offers it 10 Coke, 59.

In doubtful cases, the presumption always is in behalf of the crown. Lofft, Append. 248.

Lat. From ambiguua, doubtful, uncertain, obscure. Ambiguity; uncertainty of meaning. Ambiguitas latcns, a latent ambiguity ; ambiguitas patens, a patent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY.

A latent ambiguity in the language may be removed by evidence; for whatever ambiguity arises from an extrinsic fact may be explained by extrinsic evidence . Bac. Max. Reg. 23.

A patent ambiguity cannot be cleared up by extrinsic evidence . Lofft, 249.

Doubtfulness; doubleness of meaning; indistinctness or uncertainty of meaning of an expression used in a written instrument . Ninrlle v. State Bank, 13 Neb. 245, 13 N. W. 275; Ellmaker […]

In insurance a rule that words must be clear and favor the the firm. The insured has no input on the contract.