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For collecting the goods of the deceased. See ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES.

In Scotch law. A name descriptive of a class of obligations marked by unusual severity. A debtor who is under an obligation of this kind cannot claim the benefit of the act

At the instance. 2 Mod. 44. Ad instantiam partis, at the instance of a party. Hale, Com. Law, 28.

To show. Form-

At the suit of. Commonly abbreviated to ads. Used in entering and indexing the names of cases, where it is desired that the name of the defendant should come first. Thus, “B.

Money paid by a vassal to his lord upon the selling or exchanging of a feud. Enc. Lond.

One which is equal, or reasonably proportioned, to the value of that for which it is given. 1 Story, Eq. Jur.

L. Lat. It is adjourned. A word with which the old reports very frequently conclude a case. 1 Ld. Raym. (>02; 1 Show. 7; 1 Leon. S8.

It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases: Admeasurement of dower, and admeasurement of pasture. Tennes de la Ley.

A triple c r threefold warning, given, in old times, to a prisoner standing mute, before he was subjected to the peine forte ct dure. 4 Bl. Comm. 325 ; 4 Steph.

Sea-weed, between high and low water-mark, which has not been deposited on the shore, and which during flood-tide is moved by each rising and receding wave, is adrift, although the bottom* of

To pay money or render other value before it is due; or to furnish capital in aid of a projected enterprise, in expectation of return from it

Lat. To consult, deliberate, consider, advise; to be advised. Occurring in the phrase curia ad- visari vult, (usually abbreviated cur. adv. vult, or C. A. T.) the court wishes to be advised,

In old English law. Adultery between parties both of whom were married. Hunter v. U. S., 1 Pin. (Wis.) 91, 39 Am. Dec. 277. Or the offense by an adulteress of continuing

A plighting of troth between man and woman. Litt.

1 Greenl. Ev.

Later, succeeding, subsequent to, inferior in point of time or of priority or preference.

One who represents and acts for another under the contract or relation of agency, q. v. Classification. Agents are either general or special. A general agent is one employed in his capacity

Officers appointed to look after cattle, etc. See Williams, Common, 232.

In Scotch law. Agreement; an agreement or contract.