Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

AGISTATIO

AGENT

AGGREGATIO MENTITJM. The meeting of minds. The moment when a contract is complete. A supposed deriva tion of the word "agreement. * AGGRESSOR. The party who first of fers violence or offense. He who begins a quarrel or dispute, either by threatening or striking another. AGGRIEVED. Having suffered loss or injury; damnified; injured. AGGRIEVED PARTY. Under statutes granting the right of appeal to the party aggrieved by an order or judgment, the party aggrieved is one whose pecuniary interest is directly affected by the adjudication; one whose right of property may be established or divested thereby. 6 Mete (Mass.) 197; 16 Pick. 264; 6 N. H. 116; 25 N. J. Eq. 505; 64 N. C. 110. Or one against whom error has been committed. 67 Mo. 99. See, also, 27 Wis. 670; 2 Paine, 315; 17 Cal. 250; 3 Allen, 556. AGILD. In Saxon law. Free from pen alty, not subject to the payment of gild, or weregild; that is, the customary fine or pe cuniary compensation for an offense. Spel man; Cowell. AGILER. In Saxon law. An observer or informer. AGILLARIUS. L. Lat. In old En glish law. A bay ward, herdward, or keeper of the herd of cattle in a common field. Cowell. AGIO. In commercial law. A term used to express the difference in point of value between metallic and paper money, or between one sort of metallic money and an other. McCul. Diet. AGIOTAGE. A speculation on the rise and fall of the public debt of states, or the public funds. The speculator is called "ag ioteur." AGIST. In ancient law. To take in and feed the cattle of strangers in the king's forest, and to collect the money due for the same to the king's use. Spelman; Cowell. In modern law. To take in cattle to feed, or pasture, at a certain rate of compensa tion. Jacob; 13 East, 159. AGISTATIO ANIMALIUM IN FOR ESTA. The drift or numbering of cattle in the forest.

In the practice of the house of lords and privy oouncil. In appeals, solicitors and other persons admitted to practise in those courts in a similar capacity to that of solicit ors in ordinary courts, are technically called "agents." Macph. Priv. Coun. 65. AGENT AND PATIENT. A phrase Indicating the state of a person who is re quired to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is done. Agentes et consentientes pari pcena plectentur. Acting and consenting parties are liable to the same punishment 5 Coke, BO. AGER. Lat. In the civil law. A field; land generally. A portion of land in closed by definite boundaries. In old English law. An acre. Spel man. AGGER. Lat. In the civil law. Adam, bank or mound. Cod. 9, 88; Townsh. PL 48. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. An as sault with circumstances of aggravation, or of a heinous character, or with intent to com mit another crime. See ASSAULT. Defined in Pennsylvania as follows: "If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously inflict upon another person, either with or without any weapon or instrument, any grievous bodily harm, or unlawfully cut, stab, or wound any other person, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor," etc. Brightly, Purd. Dig. p. 434, § 167. AGGRAVATION. Any circumstance Attending the commission of a crime or tort which increases its guilt or enormity or adds to its injurious consequences, but which is tbove and beyond the essential constituents of the crime or tort itself. Matter of aggravation, correctly under ilood, does not consist in acts of the same kind and description as those constituting the gist of the action, but in something done by the defendant, on the occasion of committing the trespass, which is, to some extent, of a different legal character from the principal act complained of. 19 Vt. 107. In pleading. The introduction of matter into the declaration which tends to increase the amount of damages, but does not affect the right of action itself. Steph. PI. 257; 12 Mod. 597. AGGREGATE. Composed of several; consisting of many persons united together. 1 BL Comm. 469.

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