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In the civil law. An action against the person, founded on a personal liability; an action seeking redress for the violation of a jus in personam or right available against a particular

That is in action; that demands action ; actually subsisting; the opposite of passive. An active debt is one which draws interest. An active trust is a confidence connected with a duty.

In the civil law. A species of right of way, consisting in the right of driving cattle, or a carriage, over the land subject to the servitude. Inst. 2, 3, pr. It

To another tribunal; belonging to another court, cognizance, or jurisdiction.

At a day; at the day. Townsh. Pi. 23. Ad certum diem, at a certain day. 2 Strange, 747. Solvit ad diem; lie paid at or on the day. 1 Chit. Pi.

For this; for this special purpose. An attorney ad hoc, or a guardian or curator ad hoc, is one appointed for a special purpose, generally to represent the client or infant in

At hand; ready for use. Et querens sectam halicat ad manum; and the plaintiff immediately have his suit ready. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 44,

To which there was no answer. A phrase used in the reports, where a point advanced in argument by one party was not denied by the other; or where a point or

To Inspect the womb. A writ for the summoning of a jury of matrons to determine the question of pregnancy.

Noble; excellent. A title of honor among the Anglo- Saxons, properly belonging to the king’s children. Spelman.

In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage into a mine; the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; a horizontal excavation in

We ought to be favored, not injured, by that which is intended for our benefit. (The species of bailment called “loan” must be to the advantage of the borrower, not to his

A female who administers, or to whom letters of administration have been granted.

To accept, appropriate, choose, or select; to make that one’s own (property or act) which was not so originally. To adopt a route for the transportation of the mail means to take

Lat. One who corrupts; one who seduces another man’s wife. Adulter solidorum. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter. Calvin.

(From Lat. adversa, things remarked or ready at hand.) Rough memoranda, common-place books.

In old practice. One who called on or vouched another to warrant a title; a voucher. Advocatus; the person called on, or vouched; a vouchee. Spelman; Townsh. PI. 45. In Scotch practice.

The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Crabb, Technol. Diet.

In the civil law. Connections by marriage, whether of the persons or their relatives. Calvin. Neighbors, who own or occupy adjoining lands. Dig. 10, 1, 12.

In criminal law. The fighting of two or more persons in some public place to the terror of the people. Burton v. Com.. 60 S. W. 526, 22 Ky. Law Rep. 1315: