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In old English law. This term was applied to working cattle, such as horses, oxen, etc.

In pleading. To acknowledge and justify an act done. To make an avowry. For example, when replevin Is brought for a thing distrained, and the party taking claims that he had a

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A writ of assise which formerly lay when a man or his ancestors under whom he claimed presented a clerk to a benefice, who was instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance,

An action, brought to repel a claim of the defendant to a servitude in the plaintiff’s land. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A species of personal action of very extensive application, otherwise called “trespass on the case,” or simply “case,” from the circumstance of the plaintiff’s whole case or cause of complaint being set

In old Scotch law. An attorney. Skene

The act of the law is hurtful to no one. An act in law shall prejudice no man. 2 Inst. 287.

Adapted tc the common understanding.

To do. Co. Litt. 204a. Ad faciendum, subjiciendum et recipiendum; to do, submit to, and receive. Ad faciendum juratamillam; to make up that jury. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 65,

To inquire; a writ of inquiry; a judicial writ, commanding inquiry to be made of any thing relating to a cause pending in court. Cowell.

It is the duty of justices to administer justice to every one pleading before them. 2 Inst. 451.

To satisfy. The emphatic words of the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, which requires the sheriff to take the person of the defendant to satisfy the plaintiff’s claim.

Corrupted from Adalat, justice, equity; a court of justice. The terms “Dewanny Adawlut” and “Foujdarry Adaw- lut” denote the civil and criminal courts of justice in India. Wharton.

In criminal law. Adequate cause for the passion which reduces a homicide committed under its influence from the grade of murder to manslaughter, means such cause as would commonly produce a degree

An adjournment is to appoint a day or give a day. 4 Inst. 27. Hence the formula “cat sine die.”

In English law. A writ which lies between those that have common of pasture appendant, or by vicinage, in cases where any one or more of them surcharges the common with more

A writ for associating certain persons, as knights and other gentlemen of the county, to justices of assize on the circuit Reg. Orig 200.

In old European law. To undertake, declare, or promise solemnly; to pledge; to pledge one’s self to make oath. Spelman.

Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a person other than the offender’s husband or wife. Civil Code Cal.