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A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax known as Adolphe Sax of Belgium and Paris and much used in military bands and in orchestras...
Ordeal
Ordeal [fr. ordal, Sax., fr. or, great, and dele, judgment], an ancient manner of trial in criminal cases practised amongst our Saxon ancestors, who affected to believe that God would actively inter-pose to establish an earthly right. There were four sorts: (1) campfight, duellum, or combat; (2) fire ordeal; (3) ot water ordeal; (4) cold water ordeal. See Verstegan's Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, 64; Turner's Ang.-Sax., vol. ii. 532; 2 Hallam's Mid. Ages, 466....
Sax
A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates...
Sax tuba
A powerful instrument of brass curved somewhat like the Roman buccina or tuba...
A Ehte-swan
A Ehte-swan [Servus Porcarius, Lat.], a swine herd, from ''ht,' property, and 'swan' (Old Norse or Icelandic, sveinn), a servant, Ibid.; Bosworth, Ang. Sax. Dict., 1898, p. 13....
Abarnare
Abarnare [fr. abarian, Ang.-Sax., denudo, detego, Lat.], to lay bare discover, detect. Hence, 'bere theof, a detected or convicted thief; 'bere morth, a detected homicide. Also to detect and discover any acret crime to a magistrate, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England; Leg. Canuti, c. 104.Abarnare, means to detect or disclose a secret crime, to bring to judgment, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 2....
Abbot, or Abbat
Abbot, or Abbat [from abbas, Lat.; abbe, Fr.; abbud, Sax.: others derive it from abba, Syr., father], a spiritual lord or governor, who had the rule of a religious house. An abbot, with the monks of the same house, who were called the convent, made a corporation, Termes de la Ley.Mitred abbots were those privileged to wear the mitre and allowed full episcopal authority within their precincts. They were also lords of Parliament, and at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII. Were twenty-six in number, 1 Bl. Com. 151....
Aberemurder
Aberemurder [fr. abere, apparent, notorious and mord, murder, Sax.], plain or downright murder, as distinguished from the less heinous crime of manslaughter or chance medley. It was declared a capital offence, without fine or commutation, by the laws of Canute, c. 93, and of Henry I. c. 13....
Abet
Abet [from a (ad vel usque), and bedan, or beteren, to stir up or excite, Sax.], to maintain or patronise: to encourage or set on. The act is called abetment. An abettor or abettator is an instigator or setter on, one who promotes or procures a crime to be committed, Old Nat. Br. 21. See ACCESSARY.With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (1)]Defined. (Abetment of a thing.-A person abets the doing of a thing, who-First.-Instigates any person to do that thing; orSecondly.-Engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; orThirdly.-Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal o...
Adeling, Ethling, or Edling
Adeling, Ethling, or Edling ['delan, Sax.], noble, excellency. A title of honour among the Anglo-Saxons, properly belonging to the king's children, Spelm. Glos...
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