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  • ATTENDANT
    One who owes a duty or service to another, or in some sort depends upon him. Termes de la Ley. One who follows and waits upon another.
  • ATTENDANT TERMS
    In English law. Terms, (usually mortgages,) for a long period of years, which are created or kept outstanding for the purpose of attending or waiting upon and protecting the inheritance. 1 Steph. Comm. 351. A phrase used in conveyancing to denote estates which are kept alive, after the objects for More...
  • ATTENTAT
    Lat. He attempts. In the civil and canon law. Anything wrongfully innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge, (or judge a quo,) pending an appeal. 1 Addams, 22, note; Shelf. Mar. & Div. 562.
  • ATTERMINARE
    In old English law. To put off to a succeeding term; to prolong the time of payment of a debt. St Westm. 2, c, 4; Cowell ; Blount
  • ATTERMINING
    In old English law. A putting off; the granting of a time or term, as for the payment of a debt. Cowell.
  • ATTERMOIEMENT
    In canon law. A making terms; a composition, as with creditors. 7 Low. Can. 272, 306.
  • ATTEST
    To witness the execution of a written instrument at the request of him who makes it, and subscribe the same as a witness. White v. Magarahan, 87 Ga. 217, 13 S. E. 509; Logwood v. Uussey, 60 Ala. 424; Arrington v. Arlington, 122 Ala. 510. 26 South. 152. This is More...
  • ATTESTATION
    The act of witnessing an instrument in writing, at the request of the party making the same, and subscribing it as a witness. See ATTEST. Execution and attestation are clearly distinct formalities; the former being the act of the party, the latter of the witnesses only. —Attestation clause. That clause More...
  • ATTESTOR OF A CAUTIONER
    In Scotch practice. A person who attests the sufficiency of a cautioner, and agrees to become subsidiarie liable for the debt Bell.
  • ATTILE
    In old English law. Rigging; tackle. Cowell.
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