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Oyi:ig, and tlie wife receiving the rent ; fuch receipt is deem- 

 ed an acceptance, and fhall make tlic Icafe good : fo that 

 Ihc ihiill be barred from bringing the writ, Cui in vita. 



So if aL-.T;e for thi term of twenty years, accept a leafe 

 of the fame land for ten years : by the leflee's acceptance 

 of the new leafe, the term of twenty years is determined in 

 law. 2 Roll. Abr. 469. 



Acceptance, in Commerce, is particularly ufcd in re- 

 fpect of bills of exchange. — To accept a Bill of exchange, 

 is to fign or fubfcribe it ; and thereby become principal 

 debtor of the fum contained therein : with an obligation to 

 pay or difcharge it at the time prefixed. 



Tlie acceptance is ufually performed by him on whom tlie 

 BILL is drawn ; upon its being prefented to him by the per- 

 fon on whofe behalf it was drawn, or by fome others by his 

 order. 



A fmall matter amounts to an acceptance, fo that there 

 be a right underftanding between both parties ; as, " Leave 

 , •' your bill with me, and I will accept it ;" or, " call for it 

 " to-moiTow, and it ihall be accepted." This obliges as 

 effeftually by the cuftom of merchants, and according to 

 law, as if the party had aftually fubfcribed, or ligned it, 

 which is ufually done. 



But (hould a man fay, " Leave vour bill with me ; I 

 " will look over my accounts and books between the drawer 

 " and me, and call to-moirow, and accordingly the bill 

 *'■ (hall be accepted." This (hall not amount to a complete 

 acceptance ; for this mention of his books and accounts was 

 really intended to give him an opportunity of examining if 

 there were cfFefts in his hands to anfwer ; without which 

 perhaps he would not accept the fame ; and fo it was ruled 

 by the Lord Chief Juflice Hale, at Guildliall, London. 



A bill may be accepted for part ; becaufc the party, upon 

 whom the fame was drawn, had no more elTefts in his hands ; 

 which being ufually done, there muft be a proteft, if not for 

 the whole fum, yet at lead for the refidue ; however, after 

 payment of fuch part there mull be a proteft for the remain- 

 der. 



Bills payable at fight are not to be accepted ; as being to 

 be acquitted at their prefenting ; or in defeft of payment, 

 to be protefted. — In bills drawn for a certain number of 

 days after fight, the acceptance mull be dated ; becaufe the 

 time is to be accounted therefrom. — The form of this ac- 

 ceptance is accepted fuch a day ; and then the fignature. 



Bills drawn, payable on a day named, or at usance, or 

 double ufance, need not be dated ; ufance being reckoned 

 from the date of the bill itfelf. — On thefe it is Tufficient to 

 write, accepted, and the fignature. 



If the bearer of a bill be contented with an acceptance to 

 be paid in twenty days after fight, where, in the bill itfelf, 

 only eight days are exprelfed, he runs the rifque of the 

 twelve additional days : fo that if the acceptor fail he has 

 no remedy againft the drawer. And if the bearer contents 

 himfelf to receive a lefs fum than is exprelfed, in part, he 

 is to (land the chance of the reft. 



ACCEPTATION, in Grammar, the signification 

 of a word ; or the fenfe wherein it is taken and received. 



ACCEPTILATION, in the Clwl Lanv,m acquittance 

 given without receiving any money, or a declaration of 

 the creditor in favour of the debtor, fignifying, that he 

 is fatisfied for his debt, and forgives all farther claim, or de- 

 mand ; though in reality no payment has been made. 



ACCEPTOR of a bill of exchange, the perfon who ac- 

 cepts the bill. See Acceptance. 



ACCESS, in a general fenfe, fignifies the approach of a 

 thing towards another. 



In which fenfe, acccfs ftands oppofed to recefs. 



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We fometiincs fay, the acccfs of bodies, tlic acccfs of the 

 moon, the fun, plants, &c. but more frequmtly, the ap- 

 prjach of bodies, the appulfe of the moon, the riling of the 

 fun, &c. Geomctiicians fpeak of a line called the curve of 

 equal accefs, or approach. 



Access, in a more particular fenfe, denotes entrance, or 



admlllion. 



We fay fuch a perfon has acccfs to the prince : the acccft 

 on that fide was very difficult, by reafon cJ rocks, &c. 



Access, in Medicine, denotes a fit, or return of fome pe- 

 riodical difeafe. 



We fay an accefs of the gout, but efpccially of an ague, 

 an intermitting fever, an epilcpfy, ^^c. an accefs of madncfs; 

 fometimes alfo a prophetical accefs, a cold accefs, ike. Acccfs 

 is frequently confounded with paroxyfm : but they are dif- 

 ferent things ; an acccfs being frequently the beginning or 

 firft onfet of a difeafe, a paroxysm the height of it. 



ACCESSIBLE, iomething that may be approached, or 

 to which we may have accefs. 



Such a place, a fortrefs, is acceffible from the feaward ; 1. e. 

 the paffage to it is prafticable. See Fortification. 



In furveying, it is fuch a place as will admit of having a 

 dillance meafured from it ; or fuch a height or depth as can 

 be meafured by a proper iiiftrument : for the means of doing 

 which, fee Altimetrv, Altitude, Distance, Height, 



and LoNGIMETRY. 



ACCESSION, in a general fenfe, is the aft of approach- 

 ing or going to a place, perfon, or thing. It is more par- 

 ticularly ufed for the aft whereby a thing is joined, or united 

 to Something that exifted before. 



Accession, in Politics, is ufed for the aft of engaging 

 and becoming a party, in a treaty before concluded between 

 other powers ; on the fame conditions as if originally com- 

 prehended in the treaty itfelf : fuch as the accefTion of the 

 States General to the treaty of Hanover, of the Czarina to 

 the treaty of Vienna, &c. It likewife iignifies a prince's 

 fucceeding to the government upon the death of his prede- 

 ceffor. 



Accession, in the language of the Conclave, is a me- 

 thod of elefting a pope, by procuring for fome candidate 

 two-thirds of the voices, upon which the reft are enrolled by 

 way of acceffion. 



Accession, in the Civil Latu, denotes a method of ac- 

 quiring property in certain things, by virtue of their con- 

 neftion with other things, which already belong to us. 



Acceffion is effefted divers ways, whence arife feveral 

 fpecies of it, nmple and mixed, natund and artificial, dif- 

 crete and concrete acceffion. See Alluvion and Speci- 

 fication. 



Accession, m Medicine. See Access. 



ACCESSORIUS Flexor di^itnrum pedis, in Anatomic 

 a name given by Dr. Hunter to that portion of mufcle which 

 was defcribed by Sylvius, and generally dillinguilhed by the 

 title of Maffa carnca Sy/vii. 



ACCESSORII mufculi ad facro-himharem. See Sacro- 

 LuMBARis. 



ACCESSORY, or Accessary, fomething that accedes, 

 or is added to another more confiderable thing : in which 

 fenfe the word ftands oppofed to Principal. 



Accessory, in Grammar, is ufed by Mr. Harris to de- 

 note fuch words as are fignificant by relation in oppofition 

 to principal, which is applicable to words that are fignificant 

 of thcmfelves. See Wo i; n. 



Accessory, or Acceffary, in Common Latv, is chiefly 

 ufed for a perfon guilty of a felonious offence, not princi- 

 pally, but by participation ; as, by advice, command, or 

 cunceahnent. 



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