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  • ALLEVIARE
    L. Lat. In old records. To levy or pay an accustomed fine or composition; to redeem by such payment. Cowell.
  • ALLIANCE
    The relation or union between persons or families contracted by intermarriage. In international law. A union or association of two or more states or nations, formed by league or treaty, for the joint prosecution of a war, or for their mutual assistance and protection in repelling hostile attacks. The league More...
  • ALLISION
    The running of one vessel into or against another, as distinguished from a collision, i. e., the running of two vessels against each other.
  • ALLOCATION
    An allowance made upon an account in the English exchequer. Cowell.
  • ALLOCATIONE FACIENDA
    In old English practice. A writ for allowing to an accountant such sums of money as he hath lawfully expended in his office; directed to the lord treasurer and barons of the exchequer upon application made. Jacob.
  • ALLOCATO COMITATU
    In old English practice. In proceedings in outlawry, when there were but two county courts holden between the delivery of the writ of exigi facias to the sheriff and its return, a special exigi facias, with an allocato comitatu issued to the sheriff in order to complete the proceedings. See More...
  • ALLOCATUR
    Lat. It is allowed. A word formerly used to denote that a writ or order was allowed. A word denoting the allowance by a master or prothonotary of a bill referred for his consideration, whether touching costs, damages, or matter of account. Lee. —Special allocatur. The special allowance of a More...
  • ALLOCATUR EXIGENT
    A species of writ anciently issued in outlawry proceedings, on the return of the original writ of exigent. 1 Tidd, Pr. 128.
  • ALLOCUTION
    See ALLOCUTUS.
  • ALLOCUTUS
    In criminal procedure, when a prisoner is convicted on a trial for treason or felony, the court Is bound to demand of him what he has to say as to why the court should not proceed to judgment against him; this demand is called the "allocutus," or "allocution," and is More...
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