or ATHELING. Noble; ex-cellent. A title of honor amoug the Anglo-Saxons, properly belonging to the king’s chil-dren. Spelmau
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To present, bring forward, offer, introduce. Used particularly with refer-euce to evidence. Tuttle v. Story County, 56 Iowa, 316, 9 N. W. 292
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To take away, recall, or revoke. To satisfy a legacy by some gift or substituted disposition, made by the testator, in advance. Tolman v. Toliuau, 85 Me. 317, 27 Atl. 184. See Ademption
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In the law of con-tracts. Additional terms or propositions to he added to a former agreement
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That part of a bill in equity wherein is given the appropriate and technical description of the court in which the bill is filed
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whatever is added to a man’s name by way of title or description, os additions of mystery, place, or degree. CowelL
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This term embraces the idea of joining or uniting one thing to on-other, so as thereby to form one aggregate. Thus, “additional security” imports a secu-rity, which, united with or joined to the former one, is deemed to make it, as an ag-gregate, sufficient as a security from tbe be-ginning. State v. Hull, 53 Miss. 626
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Lat in the civil law. To adjudge or condemn; to assign, allot, or deliver; to sell. In the Roman law, addico was one of the three words used to express the extent of the clvll jurisdiction of the praetors
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In the Roman law. The giving up to a creditor of hls debtor's person by a magistrate; also the transfer of the debtor’s goods to one who assumes his liabll-ltles
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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
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Money paid by a vassal to his lord upon the selling or exchanging of a feud. Enc. Lond
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At will. Bract fol. 27a. Ad voluntatem domini, at the will of the lord
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For life. Bract, fol. 13b. In feodo, vel ad vitam; in fee, or for life. Id
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According to value. Duties are either ad valorem or speei/fc; the former when the duty is laid in the form of a percentage on the value of the property; the latter where It is imposed as a fixed sum on each article of a class without regard to its value. The term ad valorem tax is as well defined and fixed as any other used in political economy or legislation, and sim-ply means a tax or duty upon the value of the article or thing subject to taxation. Bailey v. Fuqua, 24 Miss. 501; Pingree v. Auditor General, 120 Mich. 95, 78 N. W. 1025, 44 L. R. A. 679
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For a term which has passed, words In the Latin form of the writ of entry employed at common law to recover, on behalf of a land-lord, possession of premises, from a tenant holding over after the expiration of the term for which they were demised. See Fitzh. Nat Brev. 201.
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To the most extended Import of the terms; in a sense as universal as the terms wlll reach. 2 Eden, 54.
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To Rntisfy. 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
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At the suit of. Com-nionly abbreviated to ads. Used iu entering and indexing the names of cases, where it is desired that the name of the defendant should come first. Thus. “B. ads. A.” in-dlcates that B. is defendant in an action brought by A., and the title so written would be an inversion of the more usual form “A. v. B.”
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