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rticular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

r support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

gen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

erior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts. Wharton. Burrill. Apostles' creed, a creed of unknown origin, which was formerly ascribed to the apostles. It certainly dates back to the beginning of the sixth century, and some assert that it can be found in the writings of Ambro…

y be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton.

h by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. Wharton.

acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

ng at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery. Blackstone. Wharton. Practically, however, the word assault is used to include the battery. Mozley & W.

for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. Blackstone. Wharton. Encyc. Brit.

plains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

n an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. Wharton.

ently result, if not extrinsically hindered, in a crime which it was designed to effect. Wharton.

law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.

has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment. Wharton.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

r. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner. Wharton. Burrill.

the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.