KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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AUTHORITIES

AVAILABLE MEANS

AUTRE.

AUTHORITIES. Citations to statutes, precedents, judicial decisions, and textbooks 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. AUTHORITY. In contracts. The law ful delegation of power by one person to an other. In the English law relating to public ad ministration, an authority is a body having jurisdiction in certain matters of a public nature. In governmental law. Legal power; a right to command or to act; the right and power of public officers to require obedience to their orders lawfully issued in the scope of their public duties. Authority to execute a deed must be given by deed. Com. Dig. "Attorney," C, 5; 4 Term, 313; 7 Term, 207; 1 Holt, 141; Blood v. Goodrich, 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 68, 75, 24 Am. Dec. 121; Banorgee v. Hovey, 5 Mass. 11, 4 Am. Dec. 17; Cooper v. Rankin, 5 Bin. (Pa.) 613. In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some su perior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the authority of the sovereign. Schm. Civil Law, 93. The name of an unlim ited monarchical government. A government at the will of one man, (called an "auto crat,") unchecked by constitutional restric tions or limitations. In medical jurispru dence, this term is applied to actions or conduct of an individual apparently occur ring without will, purpose, or reasoned in tention on his part; a condition sometimes observed in persons who, without being ac tually insane, suffer from an obscuration of the mental faculties, loss of volition or of memory, or kindred affections. "Ambulatory automatism" describes the pathological im pulse to purposeless and irresponsible wan derings from place to place often character istic of patients suffering from loss of mem ory with dissociation of personality. The political independ ence of a nation; the right (and condition) of self-government. The dissection of a dead body for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of death. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1288. Sudduth v. Insurance Co. (a C.) 106 Fed. 823. AUTO ACORDABO. AUTOCRACY. AUTOGRAPH. The handwriting of any one. AUTOMATISM. AUTONOMY. AUTOPSY.

L. Fr. Another.

—Autre action pendant. Another action pending.— Autre droit. The right of another. —Autre vie. Another's life. A person hold ing an estate for or during the life of another is called a tenant "»wr autre vie," or "pur terme d'autre v%e. n Litt. § 56; 2 Bl. Comm. 120. formerly; before; heretofore. —Autrefois acquit. In criminal law. For merly acquitted. The name of a plea in bar to a criminal action, stating that the defendant has been once already indicted and tried for the same alleged offense and has been acquitted. Simco v. State, 9 Tex. App. 348; U. S. v. Gibert, 25 Fed. Cas. 1,294.— Autrefois at taint. In criminal law. Formerly attainted. A plea that the defendant has already been at tainted for one felony, and therefore cannot be criminally prosecuted for another. 4 Bl. Comm. 336.— Autrefois convict. Formerly convicted. In criminal law. A plea by a crim inal in bar to an indictment that he has been formerly convicted of the same identical crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 336; 4 Steph. Comm. 404; Sim co v. State, 9 Tex. App. 348; U. S v. Olsen (D. C.) 57 Fed. 582; Shepherd v. People, 25 N. Y. 420. law Aid; compulsory aid, hence a tax or tribute; a kind of tribute paid by the vas sal to his lord, being one of the incidents of the tenure by knight's service. Spelman. — Auxilium ad nlium militem faciendum et filiam maritandam. An ancient writ which was addressed to the sheriff to levy com pulsorily an aid towards the knighting of a son. and the marrying of a daughter of the tenants in capite of the crown.— Auxilium curiae. In old English law. A precept or order of court citing and convening a party, at the suit and request of another, to warrant something.— Auxi l ium regis. In English law. The king's aid or money levied for the royal use and the public service, as taxes granted by parliament. —Auxilium vice comiti. An ancient duty paid to sheriffs. Cowell. The right of marriage, which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony. A guardian in socage had also the same right, but not attended with the same advantage. 2 Bl. Comm. 88. In Scotch law. A certain sum due by the heir of a deceased ward vassal, when the heir became of marriageable age. Ersk. Inst. 2, 5, 18. This phrase, among mercantile men, is a term well un derstood to be anything which can readily be converted into money; but it is not nec essarily or primarily money itself. McFad den v. Leeka, 48 Ohio St 513, 28 N. E. 874; AVAIL OF MARRIAGE. In feudal law. AVAILABLE MEANS. AUTREFOIS. L. Fr. At another time; AUXILIARY. ancillary, (q. v.) Aiding; attendant on J As an auxiliary bill in equity, an auxiliary receiver. See Buckley v. Harrison, 10 Misc. Rep. 683, 31 N. Y. Supp. 1001. AUXILIUM. In feudal and old English