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The removal of a considerable quantity of soil from the land of one man, and its deposit upon or annexation to the land of another, suddenly and by the perceptible action of

A claim set up by a stranger to goods upon which the sheriff has levied an execution ex attachment

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.

In French and civil law. The purchaser at a judicial sale. Brent v. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 109S, 0 South. 793.

In public law. The administration of government means the practical management and direction of the executive department, or of the public machinery or functions, or of the operations of the various organs

The daughter of a great- great-granddaughter. Calvin.

In the civil law. Added, annexed, or bound by or in writing; enrolled, registered: united, joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Scrius colonce adscrip- tus, a slave annexed to an estate as a

A period of time recognized by the English common and ecclesiastical law, beginning on the Sunday that falls either upon St. Andrew’s day, being the 30th of November, or the next to