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In allegiance. 2 Kent, Comm. 56. Subjects born ad /Idem are those born ln allegiance

To fee farm. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 50, $ 30

In

To do. Co. Lltt 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, S 12

At issue; at the end (of the pleadings.) Steph. Pl. 24

To the disherison. or disinheriting; to the injury of the Inheritance. Bract, fol. 15a; 3 Bl. Comm. 288. Formal words in the old writs of waste

For exchange; for compensation. Bract, fol. 12b, 37b

To the effect, or end. Co. Litt 204a; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 802, S 2143. Ad effcctum scqucntcm, to the efTect followlng. 2 Salk. 417

At a day; at the day. Townsh. Pl. 23. Ad certum diem, at a cer-taln day. 2 Strange, 747. Solvit ad diem; he paid at or on the day. 1 Chit Pl. 485

To defend. 1 BL Comm. 227

At the cost. 1 Bl. Comm. 314

At the costs. Toullier

At a court 1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon to court

To

To appear. Ad comparendum, et ad standum juri, to appear and to stand to the law, or abide the Jndg-ment of the court Cro. Jac. 67

At common law. The name of a writ of eutry (now

Adapted to ttie common understanding

For a share of the field or land, for champert. Fleta. lib. 2, c; 36, I 4

To the bar; at the bar. 8 How. State Tr. 112

To hear and determine. SL Westra. 2, cc. 29, 30

To take assises; to take or hold the assises. Bract, fol. 110a; 3 Bl. Comm. 185. Ad asstsam capiendam; to take an assise. Bract, fol. 110b

At another day. A common phrase in the old reports. Yearb

To another tribunal; belonging to another court, cognl-zance, or jurisdiction

For the admitting of the clerk. A writ ln the nature of an execution, commanding the bishop to admit hls clerk, upon the success of the latter in a quore impcdit.

L* Lat For more abundant caution. 2 How. State Tr. 1182. otherwise expressed, ad cautelam ex superabundant!. Id. 1163.

In the civil law. An act or action. Non tantum verbis, sed etiam actu; not only by words, but also by act Dig. 46, 8, 5

Lat. A deed; something done

In English ecclesiastical law. A clerk that registers the acts and constitutions of the lower house of convoca-tion; or a registrar in a court chrlstlan

In Roman law. .A notary or clerk, one who drew the acts or statutes, or who wrote in brief the public acts

Real; substantial; existing presently in act, having a valid objective existence as opposed to that which ls mere-ly theoretical or possible

In Scotch law. ordinances for regulating the forms of pro-ceeding, before the court of session, in the administration of Justice, made by the Judges, who have the power by virtue of a Scotch act of parliament passed in 1540. Ersk. Prin. | 14

Legal memoranda made iu the admiralty courts in England, in the nature of pleas

Lat. A female actor; a fe-male plaintiff. Calvin

In old Scotch law. An attorney. Skene

In

That is in action; that demands action; actually subsisting; the oppo-site of passive. An active debt is one which draws interest An active trust ls a confl-dence connected with a duty. An active use is a present legal estate

In Scotch law. These are either (1) actions of proper improbatiou for declaring a writing false or forged; (2) actions of reductlon-improbation for the production of a writing in order to have lt set aside or its effect ascertained nn-der the certification that the writing if uot produced shall be declared false or forged; and […]

In Scotch law. All actions which are not rescissory. Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, 18

In the Eng

In the Roman law. Legal or lawful action; actions of or at law, (legitim# actiones.) Dig. 1, 2, 2, 6

That for which an action wlll lie; furnlshing legal ground for an actlon

A form of action for the recovery of claims, such as are usually evidenced by a book-account; this action is principally used in Vermont and Connecticut. Terrill v. Beecher, 9 Conn. 344; Stoking v. Sage, 1 Conn. 75; Green v. Pratt, 11 Conn. 205; May v. Brownell, 3 Vt. 463; Easly v. Eakin, Cooke (Tenn.) […]

A phrase used when a defendant pleads some matter by which he shows that the plaintiff had no cause to have the writ sued upon, although lt may be that he is entitled to another writ or action for the same matter. CowelL

Conduct; behavior; something done; the condition of acting; an act or series of acts

In the civil and common law. A personal action. The ordi-nary term for this kind of action in the civil law ls actio in personam, (q. t>.,) the word personalis being of only occasional occur-rence. Inst 4, 6, 8, in tit.; Id. 4, 11, pr. 1. Bracton, however, uses lt freely, and hence the personal […]

In English pleading. A name given to the distinctive clause In the plea to the further mainte

The name of the plea of the stat* ute of limitations, when the defendant alleges that the plaintiff’s action has not accrued withiu six years

In the civil and com-mon law. An- action for a thing; an action for the recovery of a thing possessed by an-other, Inst. 4, 6, 1. An’action for the en-forcement of a rlght (or for redress for its Invasion) whlch was originally available against all the world, and not in any special sense against the […]

In tbe civil taw. An action against the person, founded on a personal liability; an action seeking re-dress, for the vlolatlon of a jus in personam or right avallable against a particular lndi-tldual

In the civil and common law. An action of contract; an action arising out of, or founded on, con-tract Inst. 4, 6, 1; Bract foL 102; 3 Bl. Comm. 117