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In the civil law. The adoption of a person who was of full age or ffli Juris. 1 Browne, Civil & AdJn. Law, 119; Dig. 1, 7, 5; Inst. 1, 11, 3. Reinders v. Koppelmann, 68 Mo. 497, 30 Am. Rep. 802. ARRONDISSEMENT, In France, one of ~e subdivisions of a department ARS.lE ET PENSAT.lE. Burnt and weighed. A term formerly applied to money tested or a ayed by fire and, by weighing. A R S E N A L S. Store-houses for arms; dock-yards, magazines,· and other military stores. ARSER IN LE:MAIN. ·Burning in the hand. The punishment by burning or branding the left thumb of lay offenders who claimed and were allowed rthe benefit of clergy, so as to distinguish them in case they made a second claim of clergy. 5 Coke, 51; 4 Bl. Comm. 367. ARSON, Arson, at common law, is the act of unlawfully and maliciously.burning the house of another man. 4 Steph. Comm. 99; 2 Ru . Crimes, 896; Steph. Crim. Dig. 298. Arson, by the common law, ls the willful ·and malicious burning of the house of another. The word "house," as here under- I stood includes not merely the dwellinghous~, but all outhouses which are parcel thereof. State v. McGowan, 20 C-Onn. 245, 52 Am. Dec. 336; Graham v. State, 40 Ala. 664; Allen v. State, 10 Ohio St. 300; State, v. Porter, 90 N. C. 719; Hill v. Com., 98 Pa. 195; State v. McCoy, 162 Mo.. 383, 62 S. W. 991. Arson Is the malicious and willful burning of the house or outhouse of another. Code Ga. 1882, § 4375. Arson is the wmful and malicious burning of a building with intent to destroy it Pen. Code Cal. I 447. Degrees of arson, In several states, thiff crime is divided into arson in the first, second, and third degrees. the first degree including the burn in~ of an inhabited dwelling-house _iii the night-time; the second degree, the burnmg (at night) of a building: other than a dwelling-ho?se, but so situated with reference to a dwelhnghouse as to endanger it; the third degree, the burning of any building or structure not the subject of arson in the first or second degree, or the burning of property, his (!WD; or an?ther's, with intent to defraud or preJud1ce an rnsurer thereof. People v. Durkin, 5 Parker, Cr. R. (N. Y.) 248; People v. Fanshawe, 65 Hun, 77, 19 N. Y. Supp. 865; State v. McCoy, 162 Mo. 383, 62 S. w. 991,; State v. Je up, 42 Kan. 422, 22 Pac. 627, ~S'UBA, The trial of money by heating It atter it waa coined. · - The lo of weight occasioned by this pro- [s. 96]