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The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.…

pon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham (Chemistry).

eater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. Brande.

The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

ed; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.

den. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

m to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record.

In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. Actual cautery. See under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.

of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has been opposed in parliament. Johnson.