Any person who keeps a shop or building where medicines are compounded or prepared according to prescriptions of physicians, or where medicines are sold. Act Cong. July 13, 1806, c. […]
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APPARATOR
A furnisher or provider. Formerly the sheriff, in England, had charge of certain county affairs and disbursements , in which capacity he was called “apparator eomitutus,” and received therefor a […]
APPARENT
That which Is obvious, evident, or manifest; what appears, or has been made manifest. In respect to facts involved in an appeal or writ of error , that which is […]
APPARENT AGENCY
Conduct by an AGENT that causes another party to believe the agent is authorized to conduct business on behalf of a PRINCIPAL, whether or not that is the case. A […]
APPARENT AUTHORITY
A legal idea where a principal is responsible for an agents acts or failure to act. The agent is thought to act for the third party . Refer to actual […]
APPARENT DANGER
as used with reference to the doctrine of self-defense in homicide, means such overt actual demonstration , by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or do some […]
APPARENT DEFECTS
in a thing sold, are those which can be discovered by simple inspection . Code La. art. 2497.
APPARENT EASEMENT
See EASEMENT.
APPARENT HEIR
In English law . One whose right of inheritance is indefeasible , provided he outlive the ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 208. In Scotch law. He is the person to whom […]
APPARENT JEOPARDY
This applies to the jeopardy of a defendant in a criminal action that is being tried before a court with the right jurisdiction and a properly selected and sworn in […]
APPARENT LOW BIDDER
A party that bids the lowest at first glance.
APPARENT MATURITY
The apparent maturity of a negotiable instrument payable at a particular time is the day on which, by its terms, it becomes due. or, when tliat is a holiday, the […]
APPARITIO
In old practice. Appearance; an appearance. Appuritio in judicio, an appearance in court. Bract, fol. 344. Post apparitionem, after appearance. Fleta, Ub. G, c. 10,
APPARITOR
An officer or messenger employed to serve the process of the spiritual courts in England and summon offenders. Cowell. In the civil law . An officer who waited upon a […]
APPARLEMENT
In old English law . Resemblance; likelihood; as apparlement of war. St. 2 Rich. II. st. 1, c. 0; Cowell.
APPARURA
In old English law the apparura were furniture, implements, tackie, or apparel. Carucarum, apparura, plow- tackle. Cowell.
APPEAL
In civil practice. The complaint to a superior court of an injustice done or error committed by an inferior one, whose judgment or decision the court above is called upon […]
APPEAL BOND
The bond given on taking an appeal, by which the appellant binds himself to pay damages and costs if he fails to prosecute the appeal with effect. Omaha Hotel Co. […]
APPEALED
In a sense not strictly technical, this word may be used to signify the exercise by a party of the right to remove a litigation from one forum to another; […]
APPEALS CONFERENCE
When a tax payer can appeal the IRS decision if they disagree with the audit. A meeting is held and another audit is done to verify the facts.
APPEAR
Iu practice. To be properly before a court; as a fact or matter of which it can take notice. To be in evidence ; to be proved. “Making it appear […]
APPEARANCE
In practice . A coming into court as party to a suit, whether as plaintiff or defendant The formal proceeding by which a defendant submits himself to the jurisdiction of […]
APPEARANCE ALLOWANCE
The payment awarded an insured for a vehicle that has been in an accident, but only slightly damaged.
APPEARANCE BY ATTORNEY
This term and “appearance by counsel” are distinctly different. the former being the substitution of a legal agent for the personal attendance of the suitor, the latter the attendance of […]
APPEARANCE DAY
The day for appearing: that on which the parties are hound to come into court. Cru- ger v. McCracken (Tex. Civ. App.) 26 S. W. 282.