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  • AGGRIEVED PARTY
    Under statutes granting the right of appeal to the party aggrieved by an order or judgment, the party aggrieved is one whose pecuniary interest is directly affected by the adjudication; one whose right of property may be established or divested thereby. Ruff v. Montgomery, 83 Miss. 185, 36 South. 67; More...
  • AGILD
    In Saxon law. Free from penalty, not subject to the payment of gild, or weregild; that is, the customary fine or pecuniary compensation for an offense. Spelman; Cowell.
  • AGILER
    In Saxon law. An observer or informer.
  • AGILLARIUS
    L. Lat. In old English law. A hayward, herdward, or keeper of the herd of cattle in a common field. Cowell
  • AGIO
    In commercial law. A term used to express the difference in point of value between metallic and paper money, or between one sort of metallic money and another. McCul. Dict.
  • AGIOTAGE
    A speculation on the rise and fall of the public debt of states, or the public funds. The speculator is called "agioteur."
  • AGIST
    In ancient law. To take in and feed the cattle of strangers in the king's forest, and to collect the money due for the same to the king's use. Spelman; Cowell. In modern law. To take in cattle to feed, or pasture, at a certain rate of compensation. See AGISTMENT.
  • AGISTATIO ANIMALIUM IN FORESTA
    The drift or numbering of cattle in the forest.
  • AGISTERS, OR GIST TAKERS
    Officers appointed to look after cattle, etc. See Williams, Common, 232.
  • AGISTMENT
    The taking in of another person's cattle to be fed, or to pasture, upon one's own land, in consideration of an agreed price to be paid by the owner. Also the profit or recompense for such pasturing of cattle. Bass v. Pierce, 36 Barb. (N. Y.) 595; Williams v. Miller, More...
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