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bailment. 1. A delivery of personal property by one person (the bailor) to another (the bailee) who holds the property for a certain purpose under an express or implied-in-fact contract. • Unlike a sale or gift of personal property, a bailment involves a change in possession but not in title. Cf. PAWN. [Cases: Bailment  1.…

bail in error.Security given by a defendant who intends to bring a writ of error on a judgment and desires a stay of execution in the meantime. See appeal bond, supersedeas bond under BOND(2). BAILIVIA bailivia. See BAILIWICK. BAILIWICK bailiwick (bay-l<<schwa>>-wik). The office, jurisdiction, or district of a bailiff; esp., a   bailiff’s territorial jurisdiction.…

ayle (ayl). See AIEL.[Blacks Law 8th]

ayel (ay-<<schwa>>l). See AIEL.[Blacks Law 8th]

aye (I), n. Parliamentary law. An affirmative vote.[Blacks Law 8th]

ayant cause (ay-<<schwa>>nt).Civil law. 1. One to whom a right has been assigned by will, gift, sale, or exchange; an assignee. 2. One who has a “cause” or standing in one’s own right.[Blacks Law 8th]

axiom (ak-see-<<schwa>>m), n. An established principle that is universally accepted within a given framework of reasoning or thinking <“innocent until proven guilty” is an age-old axiom of criminal law>. — axiomatic (ak-see-<< schwa>>-mat-ik), adj.[Blacks Law 8th]

AWOL.abbr.Absent  without  leave;  missing  without  notice  or  permission.  [Cases:  Armed Services    36; Military Justice    667. C.J.S. Armed Services §§ 153–155, 157; Military Justice§§ 2, 4–11, 13, 57.][Blacks Law 8th]

away-going crops.See CROPS.[Blacks Law 8th]

award in interference.See PRIORITY AWARD.[Blacks Law 8th]