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The proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the purity or fineness of metals,

One who makes an assignment of any kind; one who assigns or transfers property.

A person who has been Insured by some insurance company, or underwriter, against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance. Brockway v. Insurance Co. (C. C.) 29 Fed. 760; Sanford

The act or process of taking, apprehending, or seizing persons or property, by virtue of a writ, summons, or other judicial order, and bringing the same into the custody of the law;

A private attorney authorized by another to act in his place and stead, either for some particular purpose, as to do a particular act, or for the transaction of business in general,

The increase of the crown’s revenues from the suppression of religious houses and the appropriation of their lands and revenues. Also the name of a court {now abolished) erected 27 Hen. VIII.,

In pleading. Another action pending. A species of plea in abatement. 1 Chit. PI. 454.

Aiding; attendant on; ancillary, (g. v.) As an auxiliary bill in equity, an auxiliary receiver. See Buckley v. Harrison, 10 Misc. Rep. 683, 31 N. Y. Supp. 1001.

A writ granted to one whose cattle were unlawfully distrained by another and driven out of the county in which they were taken, so that they could not be replevied by the

In ecclesiastical law. An advocate of a church benefice.

In Spanish law. A congress of persons; the municipal councl’ of a city or town. 1 White, Coll. 416; Friedman v. Goodwin, 9 Fed. Cas. 818.

In a general sense, denotes the process of ascertaining and adjusting the shares respectively to be contributed by several persons towards a common beneficial object according to the benefit received. In taxation.

A writ of assise which lay where a nuisance had been committed to the complainant’s freehold ; either for abatement of the nuisance or for damages.

A term employed to designate a locum tennis who is performing the duties of an office to which he does not himself claim title; c. g., “Acting Supervising Archi

An action given against a master, founded on some business done by his slave, acting under his order, (jussu.) Inst. 4, 7, 1; Dig. 15, 4; Cod. 4, 20.

The breach or nonperformance of a legal duty, through neglect or carelessness, resulting in damage or injury to another. Roddy v. Missouri Pac. R. Co.. 104 Mo. 234. 15 S. W. 1112.

Legal memoranda made in the admiralty courts in England, in lhe nature of pleas.

Acts required to be done by law do not admit of qualification. Hob. 153; Branch, Princ.

At common law. The name of a writ of entry (now obsolete) brought by the reversioners after the death of the life tenant, for the recovery of lands wrongfully alienated by him.

To fee farm. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 50,