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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.

In life insurance. A company in which a death loss is met by levying an assessment on the surviving mem- bets of the association. Mutual Ren. L. Ins. Co. v. Marye. 85

A writ of assise which lay for the recovery of lands or tenements, where the claimant had been lately disseised.

In the civil law. An original instrument or writing; the original of a will or other instrument, as distinguished from a copy. Dig. 22, 4, 2; Id. 29, 3, 12.

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.