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ple v. Dole, 122 Cal. 486, 55 Pac. 581, 68 Am. St Rep. 50; State v. Tally, 102 Ala. 25, 15 South. 722; State v. Jones, 115 Iowa, 113, 88 N. W. 196; State v. Cox, 65 Mo. 29, 33. AID AND COMFORT. Help; support; assistance; counsel; encouragement. As an element in the crime ot treason, the giving of "aid and comfort" to the enemy may consist in a mere attempt It is not es sential to constitute the giving of aid and comfort that the enterprise commenced should be successful and actually render as sistance. Young v. United States, 97 U. S. 62, 24 L. Ed. 992; U. S. v. Greathouse, 4 Sawy. 472, Fed. Cas. No. 15,254. AID OF THE KING. The king's tenant prays this, when rent is demanded of him by others. AID PRAYER. In English practice. A proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the ten ant for life, etc., from the reversioner or re mainder-man, when the title to the inherit ance was in question. It was a plea in sus pension of the action. 3 Bl. Comm. 300. AIDER BY VERDICT. The healing or remission, by a verdict rendered, of a detect or error in pleading which might have been objected to before verdict The presumption of the proof of all facts necessary to the verdict as it stands, coming to the aid of a record in which such facts are not distinctly alleged. AIDS. In feudal law, originally mere benevolences granted by a tenant to his lord, in times of distress; but at length the lords claimed them as of right They were prin cipally three: (1) To ransom the lord's per son, if taken prisoner; (2) to make the lord's eldest son and heir apparent a knight; (3) to give a suitable portion to the lord's eldest daughter on her marriage. Abolished by 12 Car. II. c. 24. Also, extraordinary grants to the crown by the house of commons, and which were the origin of the modern system of taxation. 2 Bl. Comm. 63, 64. —Reasonable aid. A duty claimed by the lord of the fee of his tenants, holding by knight service, to marry his daughter, etc Cowell. AIEL, Aienl, Aile, Ayle. L. FT. A grandfather. A writ which lieth where the grandfather was seised in his demesne as of fee of any lands or tenements in fee-simple the day that he died, and a stranger abateth or entereth the same day and dispossesseth the heir, Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 222; Spelman; Termes de la Ley; 3 Bl. Comm. 186. AIELESSE. A Norman French term sig nifying "grandmother." Kelham.

AGRX. Arable lands in common fields. AGRI IilMITATI. In Roman law. Lands belonging to the state by right of con quest, and granted or sold in plots. Sandars, Just. Inst (5th Ed.) 98. In modern civil law. Lands whose boundaries are strictly limited by the lines of government surveys. Hardin v. Jordan, 140 U. S. 371, 11 Sup. Ct 808, 35 L. Ed. 428. A statutory lien in some states to secure money or sup plies advanced to an agriculturist to be ex pended or employed in the making of a crop and attaching to that crop only. Clark v. Farrar, 74 N. C. 686, 690. AGRICULTURE. The science or art of cultivating the ground, especially in fields or large areas, including the tillage of the soil, the planting of seeds, the raising and har vesting of crops, and the rearing of live stock. Dillard v. Webb, 55 Ala. 474. And see Bin zel v. Grogan, 67 Wis. 147, 29 N. W. 895; Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. (Tenn.) 510; Springer v. Lewis, 22 Pa. 191. A person actually engaged in the "science of agriculture" (within the meaning of a statute giving him special exemptions) is one who de rives the support of himself and his family, in whole or in part, from the tillage and culti vation of fields. He must cultivate something more than a garden, although it may be much less than a farm. If the area cultivated can be called a field, it is agriculture, as well in contemplation of law as in the etymology of the word. And if this condition be fulfilled, the uniting of any other business, not inconsistent with the pursuit of agriculture, does not take away the protection of the statute. Springer v. Lewis. 22 Pa. 193. AGUSADURA. In ancient customs, a fee, due from the vassals to their lord for sharpening their plowing tackle. AHTEID. In old European law. A kind of oath among the Bavarians. Spelman. In Saxon law. One bound by oath, q. d. "oath tied." From ath, oath, and tied. Id. AID, v. To support, help, or assist. This word must be distinguished from its syno nym "encourage," the difference being that the former connotes active support and as sistance, while the latter does not; and also from "abet," which last word imports nec essary criminality in the act furthered, while "aid," standing alone, does not. See ABET. AID AND ABET. In criminal law. That kind of connection with the commission of a crime which, at common law, rendered the person guilty as a principal in the second degree. It consisted in being present at the time and place, and doing some act to ren der aid to the actual perpetrator of the crime, though without taking a direct share in its commission. See 4 Bl. Comm. 34; Peo AGRICULTURAL LIEN.