Exemption or protection from penalty or punishment. Dillon v. Rogers,30 Tex. 153.

In the civil law. The application of a payment made by a debtor to his creditor.

As used in legal phrases, this word means attributed vicariously; that is,an act, fac-f, or quality is said to be “imputed” to a person when it is ascribed orcharged to him, not

Attainable or recoverable by action; not in possession. A term applied toproperty of which a party has not the possession, but only 5 right to recover it byaction. Things in action are

Against an adverse, unwilling, or resisting party. “A decree not byconsent, but in adversum.” 3 Story, 318.In cedificiis lapis male positus non est removendus. 11 Coke, G9. A stone badlyplaced in buildings

In equal hand. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14.

In equal right; on an equality in point of right.In sequali jure melior est conditio possidentis. In Ta case of] equal right thecondition of the party in i>ossession is the better. Plowd.

In equal hand; held equally or indifferently between two parties.Where an instrument was deposited by the parties to it in the hands of a thirdperson, to keep on certain conditions, it was

In another’s land 2 Steph. Comm. 20.

In another place.In alta proditione nullus potest esse accessorius sed principalis solummodo.3 Inst. 138. In high treason no oue can be an accessary but only principal.In alternatives electio est debitoris.In alternatives the

In open daylight; In the day-time. 9 Coke, G56.

Among the subtleties or extreme doctrines of the law. 1 Kames,Eq. 190. See APEX JURIS

At the pleasure of the judge.

In close and safe custody. 3 Bl. Comm. 415.

In a moment; immediately. Cod. 1, 34, 2.

In the article of death; at the point of death. Jackson v. Vredenbergh, 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 159.In atrocioribus delictis punitnr affec- tus licet non sequatur effectus. 2 Rolle It. 82. Inmore

In bank; in the bench. A term applied to proceedings in the court inbank, as distinguished from proceedings at nisi prius. Also, in the English court of common bench.

In existence or life at a given moment of time, as, in the phrase “life orlives in being” in the rule against perpetuities. An unborn child may, in somecircumstances be considered as

A term applied to the indorsement of a bill or note where it consistsmerely of the indorser’s name, without restriction to any particular Indorsee. 2 Steph.Comm. 104.

Among the goods or property; in actual possession. Inst. 4, 2, 2. In bonisdcfuncti, among the goods of the deceased.