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ALITER

Lat Otherwise. A term often used in the reports. Aliud est celare, aliud tacere. To conceal Is one thing; to be silent is another thing. Lord Mansfield, 3 Burr. 1910.

ALLEGATION

The assertion, declaration, or statement of a party to an action, made in a pleading, setting out what he expects to prove. A material allegation in a pleading is one essential to

ALLODIAL

Free; not holden of any lord or superior; owned without obligation of vassalage or fealty; the opposite of feudal. Barker v. Dayton, 28 Wis. 3S4; Wallace v. Ilarmstad, 44 Pa. 499.

ALMESFEOH

In Saxon law. Alms-fee; alms-money. Otherwise called “Peterpence.” Cowell.

ALTERNATIVE

One or the other of two things; giving an option or choice; allowing a choice between two or more things or acts to be done.

AMBIDEXTER

Skillful with both hands; one who plays on both sides. Applied anciently to an attorney who took pay from both sides, and subsequently to a juror guilty of the same offense. Cowell.

AMENDE HONORABLE

In old English law. A penalty imposed upon a person by way of disgrace or infamy, as a punishment for any offense, or for the purpose of making reparation for any injury

AMITTERE

Lat. In the civil and old English law. To lose. Hence the old Scotch “amitt.”

AMY

See AMI ; PROCIIEIN AMY.

ANCHOR WATCH

A watch, consisting of a small number of men. (from one to four,) kept constantly on deck while the vessel is riding at single anchor, to see that the stoppers, painters, cables,

ANGILD

In Saxon law. The single value of a man or other thing: a single were- gild; the compensation of a thing according to its single value or estimation. Spelman. The double gild

ANNULUS

Lat. In old English law. A ring; the ring of a door. Per haspam vel annulum hostii exterioris; by the hasp or ring of the outer door. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 15,

ANTICIPATION

The act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time. In conveyancing, anticipation is the act of assigning, charging, or otherwise dealing with income before it becomes due. In patent

APERTURA TESTAMENTI

In the civil law. A form of proving a will, by the witnesses acknowledging before a magistrate their having sealed it

APPEALED

In a sense not strictly technical, this word may be used to signify the exercise by a party of the right to remove a litigation from one forum to another; as where

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