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An action which the bailor of a thing for hire may bring against the bailee, in order to compel him to redeliver the thing hired.

A preliminary or preparatory action. An action instituted for the determination of some preliminary matter on which other litigated matters depend, or for the determination of some point or question arising in

An action for goods taken by force; a species of mixed action, which lay for a party whose goods or movables (bona) had been taken from him by force, (vi,) to recover

An action by a creditor to obtain a sequestration of the rents of land and the goods of his debtor for the satisfaction of the debt, or to enforce a distress.

In Scotch law. All actions which are not rescissory. Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, 18.

Lands are “actually sold” at a tax sale, so as to entitle the treasurer to the statutory fees, when the sale is completed ; when he has collected from the purchaser the

A repugnant act cannot be brought into being, i. e., cannot be made effectual. Plowd. 355.

At a court. 1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon to court.

TO the middle of the way; to the central line of the road. Parker v. Inhabitants of Framingham, 8 Mete. (Mass.) 260.

To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king’s clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king’s

On complaint of.

Suspicion lies heavy on the unfortunate side.

This term embraces the idea of joining or uniting one thing to another, so as thereby to form one aggregate. Thus, “additional security” imports a security, which, united with or joined to

In the civil law. To be present; the opposite of abesse. Calvin.

An adjournment is to appoint a day or give a day. 4 Inst. 27. Hence the formula “cat sine die.”

An action by a grantee against his grantor to compel him to complete the title.

Ill ecclesiastical law. Auxiliary or supplementary evidence; such as is presented lor the purpose of explaining and completing other evidence.

In evidence. A voluntary acknowledgment, confession, or concession of the existence of a fact or the truth of an allegation made by a party to the suit. Roosevelt v. Smith, 17 Misc.

That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of majority. It commences for males at 14, and for females at 12 years completed, and continues till 21 years complete.

Side judges. Assistants or advisers of the regular magistrates, or appointed as their substitutes in certain cases. Calvin.