Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

AULNAGER

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AUTHORITIES

AUTHENTIC ACT. In the civil law. An act which has been executed before a notary or other public officer authorized to execute such functions, or which is testified by a public seal, or has been rendered public by the authority of a competent magistrate, or which is certified as being a copy of a pub lic register. Nov. 73, c. 2; Cod. 7, 52, 6, 4, 21; Dig. 22, 4. The authentic act, as relates to contracts, is that which has been executed before a no tary public or other officer authorized to exe cute such functions, in presence of two wit nesses, free, male, and aged at least fourteen years, or of three witnesses, if the party be blind. If the party does not know how to sign, the notary must cause him to affix his mark to the instrument. All prods verbals of sales of succession property, signed by the sheriff or other person making the same, by the purchaser and two witnesses, are authen tic acts. Civil Code La. art. 2234. AUTHENTICATION. In the law of evidence. The act or mode of giving au thority or legal authenticity to a statute, rec ord, or other written instrument, or a certi fied copy thereof, so as to render it legally admissible in evidence. An attestation made by a proper officer by which he certifies that a record is in due form of law, and that the person who certifies it is the officer appointed so to do. AUTHENTICS. In the civil law. A Latin translation of the Novels of Justinian by an anonymous author; so called because the Novels were translated entire, in order to distinguish it from the epitome made by Julian. There is another collection so called, com piled by Irnier, of incorrect extracts from the Novels and inserted by him in the Code, in the places to which they refer. AUTHENTICUM. 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. AUTHOR. One who produces, by his own intellectual labor applied to the materials of his composition, an arrangement or corn, pilation new in itself. 2 Blatchf. 39. AUTHORITIES. Citations to statutes, precedents, judicial decisions, and text-books of the law, made on the argument of ques tions of law or the trial of causes before a court, in support of the legal positions con tended for.

AtTLNAGER. See ALNAGEB. A U M E E N . In Indian law. Trustee; commissioner; a temporary collector or su pervisor, appointed to the charge of a country on the removal of a zemindar, or for any other particular purpose of local investigation or arrangement. AUMIL. In Indian law. Agent; officer; native collector of revenue; superintendent of a district or division of a country, either on the part of the government zemindar or renter. AUMILDAR. In> Indian law. Agent; the holder of an office; an intendant and col lector of the revenue, uniting civil, military, and financial powers under the Mohammedan government. AUMONE, SERVICE IN. Where lands are given in alms to some church or religious house, upon condition that a service or prayers shall be offered at certain times for the repose of the donor's soul. Britt. 164. AUNCEL WEIGHT. In English law. An ancient mode of weighing, described by Cowell as "a kind of weight with scales hang ing, or hooks fastened to each end of a staff, which a man, lifting up upon his forefinger or hand, discerneth the quality or difference between the weight and the thing weighed." AUNT. The sister of one's father or mother, and a relation in the third degree, correlative to niece or nephew. AURES. A Saxon punishment by cutting off the ears, inflicted on those who robbed churches, or were guilty of any other theft. AURUM REGIN.S!. Queen's gold. A royal revenue belonging to every queen con sort during her marriage with the king. AUTER, Autre. L. Fr. Another; other. AUTER ACTION PENDANT. L. Fr. In pleading. Another action pending. A •pecies of plea in abatement. 1 Chit. PI. 454. AUTER DROIT. In right of another, e. g., a trustee holds trust property in right of his cestui que trust. A prochein amy sues in right of an infant. 2 Bl. Comm. 176. AUTHENTIC. Genuine; true; having the character and authority of an original; duly vested with all necessary formalities and legally attested; competent, credible, and reliable as evidence.

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