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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.

A statute touching orders to be observed in the king’s forests. Manwood, 35.

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.

Relative words refer to the nearest antecedent, unless it be prevented by the context. Jenk. Cent. U 180.

For a term which has passed. Words in the Latin form of the writ of entry employed at common law to recover, on behalf of a landlord, possession of premises, from a

This term embraces the idea of joining or uniting one thing to another, so as thereby to form one aggregate. Thus, “additional security” imports a security, which, united with or joined to

In Scotch law. The name of a form of action by which the mutual obligation of marriage may be enforced by either party. Bell. It corresponds to the English action for the

In Canadian law. A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale. See 1 Low. Can. 241; 10 Low. Can. 325.

Auxiliary to. “The murder would be adminicular to the rob bery,” (i. e., committed to accomplish It) The Marianna Flora, 3 Mason, 121, Fed. Cas. No. 9080.

This abbreviation will be Judicially presumed to mean “administrator.” Moseley v. Mastin, 37 Ala. 210, 221.