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In old English law. A precept or order of court citing and convening a party, at the suit and request of another, to warrant something.

In feudal law. A duty required from some customary tenants, to carry goods in a wagon or upon loaded horses.

In English law. An adulterer with whom a married woman continues in adultery. Termes de la Ley.

The judgment or decree of a court having jurisdiction, that a person against whom a petition in bankruptcy has been filed, or who has filed his voluntary petition, be ordered and adjudged

A statute touching orders to be observed in the king’s forests. Manwood, 35.

An action by a lender against a borrower, the principal object of which is to obtain a restitution of the thing lent. Poth. Pret a Usage, nn. 05, 68.

A real action. The proper term in the civil law was rci vindieatio. Inst. 4, 0. 3.

L. Lat. (From actio, an action.) In old records. To bring an action ; to prosecute, or sue. Thorn’s Chron.; Whis- haw.

Real; substantial; existing presently in act having a valid objective existence as opposed to that which is merely theoretical or possible. Something real, in opposition to constructive or speculative; something existing in

An act does not make [the doer of it] guilty, unless the mind be guilty; that is, unless the intention be criminal. 3 Inst. 107. The intent and the act must both

To render an account. St. Westm. 2, c. 11.

TO the thread of the water; to the central line, or middle of the stream. Usque ad fllurn aquas, as far as the thread of the stream. Bract, fol. 20S6; 235a. A

To joining in aid; to join in aid. See AID PRAYER.

Relative words refer to the nearest antecedent, unless it be prevented by the context. Jenk. Cent. U 180.

For a term which has passed. Words in the Latin form of the writ of entry employed at common law to recover, on behalf of a landlord, possession of premises, from a

This term embraces the idea of joining or uniting one thing to another, so as thereby to form one aggregate. Thus, “additional security” imports a security, which, united with or joined to

In Scotch law. The name of a form of action by which the mutual obligation of marriage may be enforced by either party. Bell. It corresponds to the English action for the

In Canadian law. A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale. See 1 Low. Can. 241; 10 Low. Can. 325.

Auxiliary to. “The murder would be adminicular to the rob bery,” (i. e., committed to accomplish It) The Marianna Flora, 3 Mason, 121, Fed. Cas. No. 9080.

This abbreviation will be Judicially presumed to mean “administrator.” Moseley v. Mastin, 37 Ala. 210, 221.