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The concourse or meeting together of a considerable number of persons at the same place. Also the persons so gathered. Popular assemblies are those where the people meet to deliberate upon their

An obsolete writ, which was directed to the judges assigned to take assises, to stay proceedings, by reason of a party to them being employed in the king’s business. Reg. Orig. 208.

1. A sanctuary, or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be taken without sacrilege. State v. Bacon, 6 Neb. 291; Cromie

In French law. The gain of a suit.

In feudal and old English law. A turning over or transfer by a lord of the services of his tenant to the grantee of his seigniory. Attornment is the act of a

See ALNAGEB.

In contracts. The lawful delegation of power by one person to another. In the English law relating to public administration, an authority is a body having jurisdiction in certain matters of a

This phrase, among mercantile men, is a term well understood to be anything which can readily be converted Into money; but it is not necessarily or primarily money Itself. McFad- den v.

A turning away of peril. Used of a contract of insurance. 3 Kent, Comm. 263.

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 affirmative petitory action for the recognition and enforcement of a servitude. So called because based on the plaintiff’s affirmative allegation of a right in defendant’s land. Distinguished from an actio ncfintoria,

An action of strict right. The class of civil law personal actions, which were adjudged only by the strict law, and in which the judge was limited to the precise language of

In the English chancery. Writs for which there were precedents. The statute of Westminster, 2, c. 24, gave chancery authority to form new writs in consimili casu; hence the action on the

An assault with actual violence is an assault with physical force put in action, exerted upon the person assailed. The term violence is synonymous with physical force, and the two are used

Lat. At; by ; for; near; on account of; to ; until; upon.

At the cost. 1 Bl. Comm. 314.

To farm. Derived from an old Saxon word denoting rent. Ad fir- mam noctis was a fine or penalty equal in amount to the estimated cost of entertaining the king for one

For the suit; for the purposes of the suit; pending the suit. A guardian ad litem is a guardian appointed to prosecute or defend a suit on behalf of a party incapacitated