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In Scotch law. Damages awarded to the relative of a murdered person from the guilty party, who has not been convicted and punished. Paters. Comp.

In English law. A process by which a man, by virtue of his privilege, calls another to litigate in that court to which he himself belongs, and who has the privilege to

The one whose name is entered on the record of an action or suit as the attorney of a designated party thereto. De- laney v. Husband, 64 N. J. Law, 275, 45

The empress or queen is not privileged or exempted from subjection to the laws. 1 Bl. Comm. 219; Dig. 1, 3, 31.

In right of another, e. g., a trustee holds trust property in right of his cestui que trust. A prochein amy sues in right of an infant. 2 Bl. Comm. 176.

In feudal and old English law. Aid; compulsory aid, hence a tax or tribute; a kind of tribute paid by the vassal to his lord, being one of the incidents of the

In pleading. A positive statement of facts, in opposition to argument or inference. 1 Chit. PI. 320. In old pleading. An offer to prove a plea, or pleading. The concluding part of

A pleading In the action of replevin, by which the defendant avoivs, that is, acknowledges, the taking of the distress or property complained of, where lie took It in his own right,

A term used in heraldry, signifying blue.

In life insurance. A company in which a death loss is met by levying an assessment on the surviving mem- bets of the association. Mutual Ren. L. Ins. Co. v. Marye. 85

A writ of assise which lay for the recovery of lands or tenements, where the claimant had been lately disseised.

In the civil law. An original instrument or writing; the original of a will or other instrument, as distinguished from a copy. Dig. 22, 4, 2; Id. 29, 3, 12.

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.