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earty Norman times. It was established by William the Conqueror in his own hall. It was composed of the great officers of state, resident in the palace, and followed the king's household in all his expeditions. AUXNAGE. See ALNAGEB. AULNAGER. See ALNAGEB. AUMEEN. In Indian law. Trustee; com missioner; a temporary collector or su pervisor, appointed to the charge of a coun try on the removal of a zemindar, or for any other particular purpose of local investiga tion or arrangement AUMIIi. 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. AUMIIiDAB. In Indian law. Agent; the holder of an office; an intendant and collector of the revenue, uniting civil, mili tary, and financial powers under the Mo hammedan government. AUMONE, SERVICE IN. Where lands are given in alms to some church or reli gious 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 hanging, or hooks fastened to each end of a staff, which a man, lifting up upon his fore finger 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. AURA EPILEPTICA. In medical juris prudence. A term used to designate the sensation of a cold vapor frequently experi enced by epileptics before, the loss of con sciousness occurs in an epileptic fit. Aurentz v. Anderson, 3 Pdttsb. R. (Pa.) 311. AURES. A Saxon punishment by cutting off the ears, inflicted on those who robbed churches, or were guilty of any other theft. AURUM REGIN.ffi. Queen's gold. A royal revenue belonging to every queen con sort during her marriage with the king. AUTER, Autre. L. Fr. Another; other. — Anter action pendant. In pleading. An other action pending. A species of plea in abatement. 1 Chit PI. 454.— Anter droit. In right of another, e. p., a trustee holds trust property in right of his cestui que trust. A prochein amy sues in right of an infant 2 Bl. Comm. 17&

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. Downing v. Brown, 3 Colo. 590. 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 public 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 proces verbals of sales of succession property, signed by the sheriff or other person making the same, by the purchaser and two witnesses, are au thentic acts. Civil Code La. art. 2234. 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. Mayfield v. Sears, 133 Ind. 86, 32 N. E. 816; Hartley v. Ferrell, 9 Fla. 380; In re Fowler (C. C.) 4 Fed. 303. 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 certi fies it is the officer appointed so to do. AUTHENTTCS. 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 distinguish ed from a copy. Dig. 22, 4, 2; Id. 29, 3, 12. AUTHOR. One who produces, by his own intellectual labor applied to the materi als of his composition, an arrangement or compilation new in itself. Atwill v. Ferrett, 2 Blatchf. 39, Fed. Cas. No. 640; Nottage v. Jackson, 11 Q. B. Div. 637; Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U. S. 53, 4 Sup. Ct 279, 28 L. Ed. 349. AUTHENTICATION.