Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ALLOCATION

ALLOTTEE

ALLOGRAPH. A document not written by any of the parties thereto; opposed to autograph. ALLONGE. When the indorsements on a bill or note have filled all tbe blank space, it is customary to annex a strip of paper, called an "allonge,** to receive the further indorsements. ALLOT. To apportion, distribute; to divide property previously held in common among those entitled, assigning to each hi* ratable portion, to be held in severalty; to set apart specific property, a share of a fund, etc., to a distinct party. In the law of corporations, to allot shares, debentures, etc., is to appropriate them to the applicants or persons who have applied for them; this is generally done by sending to each applicant a letter of allotment, inform ing him that a certain number of shares have been allotted to him. Sweet. ALLOTMENT. Partition,apportion ment, division; the distribution of land un der an inclosure act, or shares in a public undertaking or corporation. ALLOTMENT NOTE. A writing by a seaman, whereby he makes an assignment of part of his wages in favor of his wife, fa ther or mother, grandfather or grandmother, brother or sister. Every allotment note must be in a form sanctioned by the board of trade. The allottee, that is, the person in whose favor it is made, may recover the amount in the county court. Mozley & Whitley. ALLOTMENT SYSTEM. Designates the practice of dividing land in small portions for cultivation by agricultural laborers and other cottagers at their leisure, and after they have performed their ordinary day's work. Wharton. ALLOTMENT WARDEN. BytheEn glish general inclosure act, 1845, § 108, when an allotment for the laboring poor of a district has been made on an inclosure under the act, the land so allotted is to be under the man agement of the incumbent and church war den of the parish, and two other persons elected by the parish, and they are to be styled "the allotment wardens" of the parish. Sweet. ALLOTTEE. One to whom an allotment is made, who receives a ratable share under an allotment; a person to whom land under an inclosure act or shares in a public under taking are allotted.

from a collision, i. e., the running of two ves sels against each other. ALLOCATION. An allowance made upon an account in the English exchequer. Cowell. ALLOCATIONE FACIENDA. In old English practice. A writ for allowing to an accountant such sums of money as he hath lawfully expended in his office; directed to the lord treasurer and barons of the ex chequer upon application made. Jacob. ALLOCATO COMITATU. In old En glish practice. In proceedings in outlawry, when there were but two county courts holden between the delivery of the writ of exigi facias to the sheriff and its return, a special exigi facias, with an allocate com itatu issued to the sheriff in order to com plete the proceedings. See EXIGENT. ALLOCATUR. Lat. It is allowed. A word formerly used to denote that a writ or order was allowed. A word denoting the allowance by a mas ter or prothonotary of a bill referred for his consideration, whether touching costs, dam ages, or matter of account. Lee. ALLOCATUR EXIGENT. A species of writ anciently issued in outlawry proceed ings, on the return of tbe original writ of exigent. 1 Tidd, Pr. 128. ALLOCUTUS. In criminal procedure, when a prisoner is convicted on a trial for treason or felony, the court is bound to de mand of him what he has to say as to why the court should not proceed to judgment against him; this demand is called the "al locutus," and is entered on the record. Archb. Crim. PI. 173. ALLODARII. Owners of allodial lands. Owners of estates as large as a subject may have. Co. Litt. 1; Bac. Abr. "Tenure," A. ALLODIAL. Free; not holden of any lord or superior; owned without obligation of vassalage or fealty; the opposite of feudal. ALLODIUM. Land held absolutely in one's own right, and not of any lord or su perior; land not subject to feudal duties or burdens. An estate held by absolute ownership, without recognizing any superior to whom any duty is due on account thereof. 1 Washb. Eeal Prop. 16.

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