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Recognizance

An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized with condition to do some particular act as

VerbarSagittarius

The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac which the sun enters about November 22 marked thus sagittarius in almanacs the Archer

Screw driver

tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw

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Soakage

The act of soaking or the state of being soaked also the quantity that enters or issues by soaking

Meteoroid

A small body moving through space or revolving about the sun which on entering the earths atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor

Sobbing

A series of short convulsive inspirations the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs

Abatement

abolished. This takes place where a person dies seised of an inheritance, and before the heir or devisee enters, a stranger, having no right, makes a wrongful entry and gets possession of it. Such an entry is

Abator, or Abater

Abator, or Abater, one who abates a nuisance or enters into a house or land vacant by the death of the former possessor, and not yet taken possession

Abjuration

3, c. 16, and altered by 6 Geo. 3, c. 53) had to be taken by every person entering upon any public office or trust. By this he renounced the Pretender (the son of James II.) and

Actus curiae neminem gravabit.

it was held that if one party to an action die during a curia advisari vult, judgment maybe entered nunc pro tunc--a principle recently applied in Ecroyd v. Coulthard, (1897) 2 Ch 554: (1898) 2 Ch 358.

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