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The office of an agent or attorney.

The chief court of England in early Norman times. It was established by William the Conqueror in his own hall. It was composed of the great officers of state, resident in the

One who produces, by his own intellectual labor applied to the materials of his composition, an arrangement or compilation new in itself. Atwill v. Ferrett, 2 Blatchf. 39, Fed. Cas. No. 640;

In feudal law. The right of marriage, which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony. A guardian In socage had also the same right,

In the civil law. An averting or turning away. A term applied to a species of sale in gross or bulk. Letting a house altogether, instead of in chambers. 4 Kent, Comm.

In old English law. Adultery. Termes de la Ley.

As distinguished from a criminal action, it is one which seeks the establishment, recovery, or redress of private and civil rights. Civil suits relate to and affect, as to the parties against

The certain established rents of the freeholders and ancient copyholders of a manor; so called because they are assised, or made precise and certain.

An action by which the plaintiff recovers the amount of a sum of money or other thing he paid by mistake. Poth. Promutuum, n. 140; Merl. Repert.

An action which lay for the lessor of a farm, or rural estate, to recover the goods of the lessee or farmer, which were pledged or bound for the rent. Inst. 4,

In the Roman law. Legal or lawful action; actions of or at law, (leyilima: actiones.) Dig. 1, 2, 2, 6.

The actual price paid for goods by a party, in the case of a real bona fulc purchase, and not the market value of the goods. Alfonso v. United States, 2 Storv,

The act of a servant in those things in which he is usually employed, is considered the act of his master. Lofft, 227.

At the costs. Toullier; Cowell; Whishaw.

Abbreviated ad fin. To the end. It is used in citations to books, as a direction to read from the place designated to the end of the chapter, section, etc. Ad finem

At large; at liberty; free, or unconfined. Ire ad largutn, to go at large. Plowd. 37. At large; giving details, or particulars; in extenso. A special verdict was formerly called a verdict

To which. A term used in | the computation of time or distance, as correlative to a quo; denotes the end or terminal point. See A Quo.

To the most extended import of the terms; in a sense as universal as the terms will reach. 2 Eden, 54.

Addonne. L. Fr. Given to. Kelham.

A term used in the laws of Holland for the application of property by an executor. Wharton.