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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 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