Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ALTA VIA

ALLOW

ALLY. A nation which has entered into an alliance with another nation. 1 Kent, Comm. 69. A citizen or subject of one of two or more allied nations. ALMANAC. A publication, in which is recounted the days of the week, month, and year, both common and particular, distin guishing the fasts, feasts, terms, etc., from the common days by proper marks, pointing out also the several changes of the moon, tides, eclipses, etc. ALMESFEOH. In Saxon law. Alms fee; alms-money. Otherwise called "Peter pence. " Cowell. ALMOIN. Alms; a tenure of lands by divine service. See FRANKALMOIGNE. ALMOXARIFAZGO. In Spanish law. A general term, signifying both export and import duties, as well as excise. ALMS. Charitable donations. Any spe cies of relief bestowed upon the poor. That which is given by public authority for the re lief of the poor. ALNAGEB or ULNAGER. A sworn officer of the king whose duty it was to look to the assise of woolen cloth made throughout the land, and to the putting on the seals for that purpose ordained, for which he collected a duty called "alnage." Cowell; Termes de la Ley. ALNETTJM. In old records, a place where alders grow, or a grove of alder trees. Doomsday Book; Co. Litt. 46. ALODE, Alodes, Alodis. L. Lat. In feudal law. Old forms of alodium, or allo dium, (q.v.) ALONG. This term means "by," "on," or "over," according to the subject-matter and the context. 34 Conn. 425; 1 Barn. & Adol. 448; 67 Mo. 58. ALT. In Scotch practice. An abbrevia tion of Alter, the other; the opposite party; the defender. 1 Broun, 336, note. ALTA PRODITIO. L. Lat. In old English law. High treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 75. See HIGH TREASON. ALTA VIA. L. Lat. In old English law. A highway; the highway. 1 Salk. 222. Alta via regia; the king's highway; "the king's high street." Fmch, Law, b. 2. c.9.

ALLOW. To grant, approve, or permit; AS to allow an appeal or a marriage; to allow an account. Also to give a fit portion out of a larger property or fund. ALLOWANCE. A deduction, an aver age payment, a portion assigned or allowed; the act of allowing. ALLOWANCE PENDENTE LITE. In the English chancery division, where prop erty which forms the subject of proceedings is more than sufficient to answer all claims in the proceedings, the court may allow to the parties interested the whole or part of the in come, or (in the case of personalty) part of the property itself. St. 15 & 16 Viet. c. 86, § 57; Daniell, Ch. Pr. 1070. ALLOY. An inferior or cheaper metal mixed with gold or silver in manufacturing or coining. As respects coining, the amount of alloy is fixed by law, and is used to in crease the hardness and durability of the coin. ALLOYNOUE. L. Fr. One who con ceals, steals, or carries off a thing privately. Britt. c. 17. ALLTJVIO MARIS. Lat. In the civil and old English law. The washing up of the sea; formation of soil or land from the sea; maritime increase. Hale, Anal. § 8. "Alluvio marts is an increase of the land ad joining, by the projection of the sea, casting up and adding sand and slubb to the adjoin ing land, whereby it is increased, and for the most part by insensible degrees." Hale, de Jure Mar. pt. 1, c. 6. ALLUVION. That increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river, or to the shore of the sea, by the force of the water, as by a current or by waves, which is so gradual that no one can judge how much is added at each moment of time. Inst. 1. 2,t.1, § 20. Ang. Watercourses, 53. The term is chiefly used to signify a grad ual increase of the shore of a running stream, produced by deposits from the waters. By the common law, alluvion is the addi tion made to land by the washing of the sea, or a navigable river or other stream, when ever the increase is so gradual that it cannot be perceived in any one moment of time. 64 111. 58. Alluvion differs from avulsion in this: that the latter is sudden and perceptible. 23 Wall. 46. See AVULSION.

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