KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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cient to answer all claims in the proceedings, the court may allow to the parties interest ed the whole or part of the income, or (in the case of personalty) part of the property it self. St. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 86, § 57; Daniell, Ch. Pr. 1070.—Special allowances. In Eng lish practice. In taxing the costs of an action as between party and party, the taxing officer is, in certain cases, empowered to make special al lowances ; i. e., to allow the party costs which the ordinary scale does not warrant. Sweet. ALLOT. 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. One who con ceals, steals, or carries off a thing privately. Britt c 17. Lat. In the civil and old English law. The washing up of the sea; formation of soil or land trom' the sea; maritime increase. Hale, Anal. § 8. "Alluvio maris 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. 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. Water Courses, 53. Jefferis v. East Omaha Land Co., 134 U. & 178, 10 Sup. Ct 518, 33 L. Ed. 872; Freeland v. Pennsylvania R» Co., 197 Pa. 529, 47 Atl. 745, 58 L. R, A. 206, 80 Am. St. Rep. 850. 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. Lovingston v. St Clair County, 64 111. 58, 16 Am. Rep. 516. Alluvion differs from avulsion in this: that the latter is sudden and perceptible. St. Clair County v. Lovingston, 23 Wall. 46, 23 L. Ed. 59. See AVULSION. 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. 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 ALLOYNOUR. L. Fr. ALLUVIO MARIS. ALLUVION. ALMANAC.

Indorsements. Fountain v. Bookstaver, 141 111. 461, 31 N. E. 17; Haug v. Riley, 101 Ga. 372, 29 S. E. 44, 40 L. R. A. 244; Bishop v. Chase, 156 Mo. 158, 56 S. W. 1080, 79 Am. St Rep. 515. To apportion, distribute; to di vide property previously held in common among those entitled, assigning to each his ratable portion, to be held in severalty; to set apart specific property, a share of a fund, etc., to a distinct party. Glenn v. Glenn, 41 Ala. 582; Fort v. Allen, 110 N. G. 183, 14 S. E. 685. 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, in forming him that a certain number of shares have been allotted to him. Sweet. apportion ment, division; the distribution of land un der an inclosure act, or shares in a public undertaking or corporation. —Allotment note. In English law. A writ ing by a seaman, whereby he makes an assign ment of part of his wages in favor of his wife, father 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 coun ty court. Mozley & Whitley.—Allotment sys tem. 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. By the English 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 management of the incumbent and church war den of the parish, and two other persons elect ed 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. 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. Thurman v. Adams, 82 Miss. 204, 33 South. 944; Cham berlain v. Putnam, 10 S. D. 360, 73 N. W. 201; People v. Gilroy, 82 Hun, 500, 31 N. Y. Supp. 776; Hinds v. Marmolejo, 60 Cal. 231; Straus v. Wanamaker, 175 Pa. 213, 34 Atl. 652. ALLOWANCE. A deduction, an average payment, a portion assigned or allowed; the act of allowing. -—Allowance pendente lite. In the English chancery division, where property which forms the subject of proceedings is more than suffi ALLOT. ALLOTMENT. Partition,