Legal Dictionary

Tag: Archaic

  • Allegation Of Faculties

    Allegation Of Faculties

    A statement made by the wife of the property of her husband, in order to her obtaining alimony. 11 Ala. (N. S.) 763; 3 Tex. 168. …

  • Affile

    To put on file. Now written file. …

  • Arbitrement

    Concept of “Arbitrement” or “Arbitrium” Traditional meaning of arbitrement, fr., arbitrium in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) An award, in arbitration. Arbitrium est judicium: an award is a judgment. […]

  • Alienist

    A term, now almost wholly obsolete but current at least into the 1930’s, for that kind of physician we would now call a psychiatrist or psychoanalyst or analyst, i.e., a physician specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental afflictions and […]