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Lat A female actor; a female plaintiff. Calvin. Acts indicate the intention. 8 Co. 1406; Broom, Max. 301.

The act of the law does injury to no one. 5 Coke, 110.

For collecting the goods of the deceased. See ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES.

In Scotch law. A name descriptive of a class of obligations marked by unusual severity. A debtor who is under an obligation of this kind cannot claim the benefit of the act

At the instance. 2 Mod. 44. Ad instantiam partis, at the instance of a party. Hale, Com. Law, 28.

To show. Form-

At the suit of. Commonly abbreviated to ads. Used in entering and indexing the names of cases, where it is desired that the name of the defendant should come first. Thus, “B.

Money paid by a vassal to his lord upon the selling or exchanging of a feud. Enc. Lond.

One which is equal, or reasonably proportioned, to the value of that for which it is given. 1 Story, Eq. Jur.

L. Lat. It is adjourned. A word with which the old reports very frequently conclude a case. 1 Ld. Raym. (>02; 1 Show. 7; 1 Leon. S8.

It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases: Admeasurement of dower, and admeasurement of pasture. Tennes de la Ley.

A triple c r threefold warning, given, in old times, to a prisoner standing mute, before he was subjected to the peine forte ct dure. 4 Bl. Comm. 325 ; 4 Steph.

Sea-weed, between high and low water-mark, which has not been deposited on the shore, and which during flood-tide is moved by each rising and receding wave, is adrift, although the bottom* of

Money or property given by a father to his child or presumptive heir, or expended by the former for the latter*s benefit, by way of anticipation of rlie share which the child

To give an opinion or counsel, or recommend a plan or course of action; also to give notice. Long v. State, 23 Neb. 33, 36 N. W. 310. This term is not

In English ecclesiastical law. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the right of presenting a fit person to the bishop, to be by him admitted and instituted to

The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit. The word is used, in this sense, interchangeably with “deponent.” But the latter term should he reserved as the designation of one who makes

In legislation. A statute couched in affirmative or mandatory terms; one which directs the doing of an act, or declares what shall be done; as a negative statute is one which prohibits

Acquired after a particular date or event. Thus, a judgment is a lien on after-acquired realty.

A phrase indicating the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is done.