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In Spanish law. A congress of persons; the municipal councl’ of a city or town. 1 White, Coll. 416; Friedman v. Goodwin, 9 Fed. Cas. 818.

In a general sense, denotes the process of ascertaining and adjusting the shares respectively to be contributed by several persons towards a common beneficial object according to the benefit received. In taxation.

A writ of assise which lay where a nuisance had been committed to the complainant’s freehold ; either for abatement of the nuisance or for damages.

Lat. in the civil law. An action or suit; a right or cause of action. It should be noted that this term means both the proceeding to enforce a right in a

An action granted to one who had been compelled by unlawful force, or fear (metus causa) that was not groundless, (met us proba- bitis or jiistus.) to deliver, sell, or promise a

In the law of libel and slander. Words which import a charge of some punishable crime or some offensive disease, or impute moral turpitude, or tend to injure a party in his

In Scotch law. Ordinances for regulating the forms of proceeding, before the court of session, in the administration of justice, made by the judges, who have the power by virtue of a

An act done by me, against my will, is not my act. Branch, Princ.

To appear. Ad comparendum, et ad standum juri, to appear and to stand to the law, or abide the judgment of the court. Cro. Jac. 67.

In allegiance. 2 Kent, Comm. 50. Subjects born ad fidem are those born in allegiance.

To judgment; to court. Ad judicium provocare; to summon to court; to commence an action; a term of the Roman law. Dig. 5, 1, 13, 14.

Lat. For pious (religious or charitable) uses or purposes. r Used with reference to gifts and bequests. U

For a term of years.

In the Roman law. The giving up to a creditor of his debtor’s person by a magistrate; also the transfer of the debtor’s goods to one who assumes his liabilities.

In the civil law. The welding together of iron; a species of adjunctio, (q. v.) Called also ferruminatio. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

The appointment of a day when the justices in eyre mean to sit again. Cowell; Spelman.

In old Italian law. Persons chosen by the consent of contending parties, to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman.

The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mortmain, in the feudal customs.

An abbreviation for ad. scetam, which means “at the suit of.” Bowen v. Sewing Mach. Co., 80 111. 1L

Moneys paid before or in advance of the proper time of payment; money or commodities furnished on credit; a loan or gift, or money advanced to be repaid conditionally. Vail v. Vail,