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ion; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

sh by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate.…

Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.

Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law." Kent.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

e part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

of a female child. [Obs.] Or is it some abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. -- To accept the person (Eccl.), to show f…

An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.

One who accepts; specifically (Law & Com.),

as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense.…

A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

Agreement; harmony; conformity. "In strict accordance with the law." Macaulay.

tion; to notice. "Of their doings, God takes no account." Milton . -- A writ of account (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account. Cowell.

To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law)

The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

he death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.

A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.