Affidavit to prove the Intention of becoming a Citizen, to accompany the preceding Affidavit.

JOHN JONES, being duly sworn, says that he is a citizen of the United States; that he is well acquainted with the above-named JOHN DOE, and that he said JOHN DOE has resided within the territory of the United States for five years last past, and for one year last past in the state of Michigan; and that during such period he has behaved himself as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; that for three years last past it has been bona fide the intention of the said JOHN DOE to become a citizen of the United States, and that at the time the said JOHN DOE arrived in the United States he had not attained his eighteenth year. JOHN JONES.

Sworn to in open court, this tenth day of August, 1888.

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JOHN SMITH, Clerk.

Proof of Residence, &c., to be made at the time of Admission.

PETER SMITH and JOHN JONES, being duly sworn, say that they are both of them citizens of the United States of America; that they know JOHN DOE, and that he has resided within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States for five years last past; that during that time he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same. PETER SMITH, JOHN JONES.

Sworn in open court, this first day of November, 1888, before me, GEORGE GOODMAN, Judge.

Oath to support the Constitution of the United States, &c.

I, JOHN DUE, do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States of America, and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever; and particularly to VICTORIA, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom I was a subject.

JOHN DOE. Sworn in open court, the first day of November, 1888, before me GEORGE GOODMAN, Judge.

Be it remembered, that on the first day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, JOHN DOE appeared in the circuit court (the said court being a court of record, having common-law jurisdiction, and a clerk and seal), and applied to the said court to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States of America, pursuant to the provisions of the several acts of the Congress of the United States of America, for that puspose made and provided; and the said applicant having thereupon produced to the court such evidence, made such declaration and renunciation, and taken such oaths as are by the said acts required:

Thereupon, it was ordered by the said court, that the said applicant be admitted, and he was accordingly admitted by the said court, to be a citizen of the United States of America.

In testimony whereof, the seal of the said court is hereunto affixed, this first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and in the one hundred and twelfth year of our Independence.

Per curiam.

(Seal of the court.)

JOHN SMITH, Clerk.

Dictionary of Law Terms.

Abandonment. The relinquishment of a claim or privilege. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation. In marine insurance, the relinquishment of all the property saved from loss by shipwreck, capture, or other peril. Abate. To enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor and before the heir or devisee takes possession.

Abet.-One who encourages, instigates or counsels another to commit a crime.

Abduction.-The taking away of a child, or wife, by fraud, persuasion or open violence.

Abscond. To go away, or conceal one's self, to avoid the serving of a process or notice.

Acceptance.—An agreeing to the act or contract of another, by some act which binds the person in law.

Accession.-A mode of acquiring property by which the owner receives addition by growth, or by labor.

Accessory. One guilty of an offense, not principally, but by participation. An accessory before the fact is one, who though absent, yet procures, counsels or commands another to commit a felony; after the fact, when one knowing of the felony assists, comforts, or conceals the criminal. Accretion.-The increase of property by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right of another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or soil from the sea, or a river. Acknowledgment.—A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal vitality

Action.-A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of law; a claim made before a tribunal.

Ad Inquirendum.— A judicial writ; commanding inquiry to be made of anything relating to a cause.

Ad Litem.- For the suit. A court has the power to appoint a guardian for the suit for one who needs assistance.

Adjournment.-Putting off, or postponing until another day. Administrator.—A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator where there is no competent executor. Admiralty, Court of.—A court having cognizance of questions arising out of maritime affairs, and of crimes committed on the high seas.

Adultery. The voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with one of the opposite sex.

Advancement.-Settlement on a wife or child, or jointure. That which a person has received from a person living in anticipation of what he might receive by inheritance.

Adverse Possessions.-That kind of continued occupation and enjoyment of real estate which indicates an assertion of right on the part of the person maintaining it.

Affidavit. A statement in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized person. It is always made ex parte, and without cross-examination, and in this differs from a Deposition. Affinity.—In civil law, the relationship in which each of the parties married stands to the kindred of the other, and which is of three kinds: 1. Direct, that subsisting between a husband and his wife's relatives, or between a wife and her husband's relatives. 2. Secondary, between the husband and his wife's relatives by marriage. 3. Collateral, between the husband and the relations of his wife's relatives. Affirm. To make a solemn promise, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath; which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Agent.-One intrusted with the business of another; an attorney. Alias. A second or further writ which is issued after the first writ has expired without effect. Another name; an assumed name. Alibi. In another place; elsewhere. When a person on trial for crime, shows that he was in another place at the time when the act was committed, he is said to prove an Alibi.

Alien.-One born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, and not naturalized.

Alimony. An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or separation from him.

Allegiance.-Fidelity and attachment to the government. Alluvion. The gradual increase of earth on a shore, or a bank of a river, by the force of water, as by a current or by waves. The owner of the land thus augmented has a right to the alluvial earth. Ancestor. One who preceded another in the possession of property; one from whom an inheritance is derived.

Annuity. A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever.

Ante-nuptial.-A settlement or agreement made before marriage. Appeal. The removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a supe rior court or judge for re-examination or review. Appraisement.-A valuation.

Apprentice. One who is bound by indentures to serve for a cer

taic period.

Appropriation. The sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. The application of the payment of a sum of money, by a debtor to his creditor.

Approver. One who being indicted of treason or felony, confesses himself guilty, and takes an oath to reveal all he knows respecting the crime charged, and all engaged with him. This is called turning State's evidence.

Appurtenances.-That which belongs to something else; something belonging to another thing, as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way; a right of common to

pasture an out-house, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage.

Arraign. To call a prisoner to the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

Array.-To set in order, as a jury, for trial of a cause, calling them one by one.

Arrest. To take, seize or apprehend by authority of law.

Arrest of Judgment.—The staying or stopping of a judgment after verdict for legal cause. The motion for this purpose is called a motion in arrest of judgment.

Arson.-The malicious burning of a dwelling-house of another person, which by the common law is felony.

Assassination.-Killing or murdering by surprise or secret assault, with no personal motive.

Assault.-An attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane in a violent manner, or by striking at him and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a Battery. Assign. To transfer to, and vest in, certain persons called Assignees for the benefit of creditors.

Assizes. A periodical sitting of the judges by virtue of a commission to hear and determine causes.

Assurance. Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property. Equivalent to INSURANCE.

Attachment.-A seizure of taking by virtue of a legal process; a laying on of hands, or taking the person by virtue of a precept; and so far differing from an arrest, inasmuch as it lays hold of the goods as well as the person; and also from a distress, which seizes only on lands, tenements, and goods; whereas an Attachment takes both the goods and body. Attachments are issued at common law against persons for contempt of court. In some States a writ of Attachment is a species of mesne process upon which the property of a defendant may be seized at the commencement of a suit and before summons to him, and may be held to satisfy the judgment the plaintiff may recover. In other States this writ can issue only against absconding debtors and those who conceal themselves. Attainder. -The corruption of blood which follows from being convicted of treason or felony. By the Constitution of the United States, no Bill of Attainder shall be passed; and no Attainder of Treason (in consequence of judicial sentence) shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attained. Attorney.-One who is appointed by another to transact any business for him, in his absence, and either private or public. A Public Attorney, or Attorney at Law, is an officer of a court of law legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court. A Private Attorney, or an Attorney in Fact, is a person appointed by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to transact any business for him ont of court.

Attorney-General.-An officer of the State empowered to act in all cases in which the State is a party.

Award. The judgment pronounced by one or more arbitrators, at the request of two or more parties at variance, in order to end the