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AUTHENTICATION

In the law of evidence. The act or mode of giving authority or legal authenticity to a statute, record, or other written instrument, or a certified copy thereof, so as to render

ACTIO EOMMUNI DIVIDUNDO

An action to procure a judicial division of joint property. Hunter. Rom. Law, 194. It was analogous in its object to proceedings for partition in modern law.

ACTIO RERUM AMOTARUIN

An action for things removed; an action which, in cases of divorce, lay for a husband against a wife, to recover things carried away by the latter, in contemplation of such divorce.

ACTIONARY

A foreign commercial term for the proprietor of an action or share of a public company’s stock; a stockholder.

ACTUAL CASH VALUE

The fair or reasonable cash price for which the property could be sold in the market, in the ordinary course of business, and not at forced sale; the price it will bring

AD CURIAM

At a court. 1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon to court.

AD FILUM VIA!

TO the middle of the way; to the central line of the road. Parker v. Inhabitants of Framingham, 8 Mete. (Mass.) 260.

AD JURA REGIS

To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king’s clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king’s

ADDITIONALES

In the law of contracts. Additional terms or propositions to be added to a former agreement.

ADHIBERE

In the civil law. To apply; to employ; to exercise; to use. Adhi- bcre diligcntiam, to use care. Adhihcre vim, to employ force.

ADJUDICATE

To settle in the exercise of judicial authority. To determine finally. Synonymous with adjudge in its strictest sense. United States v. Irwin, 127 U. S. 125, 8 Sup. Ct. 1033, 32 L.

ADNEPOS

The son of a great-great- grandson. Calvin.

ADSCRIPTI GLEB7E

Slaves who served the master of the soil, who were annexed to the land, and passed with it when it was conveyed. Calvin. In Scotland, as late as the reign of George

ADVENT

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

ADVOCATE, LORD

The principal crown lawyer in Scotland, and one of the great officers of state of Scotland. It is his duty to act as public prosecutor; but private individuals injured may prosecute upon

AITAS

Lat. In the civil law. Age.

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