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Rh distributed among several persons, it cannot be all given to one. nor can any of the persons be wholly excluded from the distribution. Hudson v. Hudson, 6 Munf. (Va.) 352.

An alienation of lands or tenements in mortmain. The re duction of the property of lands or tenements to mortmain.

In its modern sense, amortization is the operation of paying off bonds, stock, or other indebtedness of a state or corporation. Sweet.

AMORTIZE. To alien lands in mortmain

In the civil law. A moving or taking away. "The slightest amotio is sufficient to constitute theft. it the animus furandi be clearly established." 1 Swint.205.

AMOTION. A putting or turning out: dispossession of lands. Ouster is an amotion of possession. 3 Bl. Comm. 199. 203.

A moving or carrying away; the wrongful taking of personal chattels. Archb. Civil Pl. Introd. c. 2, § 3.

In corporation law. The act of removing an officer, or official representative, of a corporation from his office or official station. before the end of the term for which he was elected or appointed, but without depriving him of membership in the body corporate. In this last respect the term differs from "disenfranchisement," (or expulsion.) which imports the removal of the party from the corporation itself, and his deprivation of all rights of membership. White v. Brownell, 2 Duly (N. Y.) 356; Richards v. Clarkeburg, 30 W Va 491, 4 S. E. 774.

AMOUNT. The effect, substance, or result; the total or aggregate sum. Hillburn v. Railroad Co., 23 Mont. 229. 58 Pac. 551; Connelly v. Telegraph Co., 100 Va 51. 40 S. E. 618, 56 L. R. A. 663, 93 Am. St. Rep. 919.

—Amount covered. In insurance. The amount that is insured, and for which under- writers are liable for loss under a policy of in- insurance.—Amount In controversy. The damages claimed or relief demanded: the amount claimed or sued for. Smith v. Giles, 65 Tex. 341: Barber v. Kennedy. 18 Minn. 216 (Gil. 196;) Railroad Co. v. Cunnigan. 95 Tex. 439. 67 S. W. 888.—Amount of loss. In insurance. The diminution, destruction, or defeat of the value of, or of the charge upon. the insured subject to the assured, by the direct consequence of the operation of the risk insured against, according to its value in the policy, or in contribution, for loss, so far as its value is covered by the insurance.

AMOVEAS MANUS. Lat. That you remove your hands. After office found, the king: was entitled to the things forfeited, either lands or personal property; the rem- edy for a person aggrieved was by "petition." or "monstrous do droit," or "traverses." to establish his superior right. Thereupon a writ issued. quod in manus dominti regis amoveeantur. 3 Bl. Comm. 260.

AMPARO. In Spanish-American law. A document issued to a claimant of land as a protection to him, until a survey can he ordered, and the title of possession issued by an authorized commissioner. Trimble v. Smither's A.m'r, 1 Tex. 790.

AMPLIATIDN. In the civil law. A deferring or judgment until a cause be further examined. Ca1vin.; Cowell An order for the rehearing of a cause on it day appointed, for the sake of more ample Information. Halifax, Anal. b. 3, c. 13, n. 32.

In French law. A duplicate of an acquittance or other instrument. A notary's copy of acts passed before him, delivered to the parties.

AMPLIUS. In the Roman law. More; further; more time. A word which the prætor pronounced in cases where there was any obscurity in a cause, and the judices were uncertain Whether to condemn or acquit: by which the case was deferred to a tiny named. Adam, Rom. Ant. 287.

AMPUTATION OF RIGHT HAND. An ancient punishment for a blow given in a superior court: or for assaulting a judge sitting in the court.

AMY. See Ami; Prochein Amy.

AN. The English indefinite article. In statutes and other legal documents. it is equivalent to "one" or "any ;" is seldom used to denote pluraillty. Kaufman v. superior Court, 115 Cal. 152, 46 Pac. 904; People v. Ogden, 8 App. DIV. 464, 40 N. Y. Supp. 827.

AN ET JOUR. Year and day; a year and a day.

AN, JOUR, ET WASTE. In feudal law. Year, day, and waste A forfeiture of the lands to the crown incurred by the felony of the tenant, after which time the land escheats to the lord. Termes de la Ley. 40.

ANACRISIS. In the civil law. An investigation of truth. interrogation of witnesses, and inquiry made into any fact, especially by torture.

ANÆSTHESIA. In medical jurisprudance. (1) Loss of sensation, or insensibility to pain, general or local, induced by the ad- ministration or application of certain drugs such as ether, nitrous oxide gas, or cocaine. (2) Defect of sensation, or more or less complete insensibility to pain, existing in various parts of the body as a result of certain diseases of the nervous system.