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  • AUDIT
    As a verb; to make an official Investigation and examination of accounts and vouchers. As a noun; tbe process of auditing accounts; the hearing and investigation had before an auditor. People v. Green, 5 Daly (N. Y.) 200; Maddox v. Randolph County, 65 Ga. 218; Machias River Co. v. Pope, More...
  • AUDITA QUERELA
    The name of a writ constituting the initial process in an action brought by a judgment defendant to obtain relief against the consequences of the judgment, on account of some matter of defense or discharge, arising since its rendition and which could not be taken advantage of otherwise. Foss v. More...
  • AUDITOR
    A public officer whose function is to examine and pass upon the accounts and vouchers of officers who have received and expended public money by lawful authority. In practice. An officer (or officers) of the court, assigned to state the items of debit and credit between the parties in a More...
  • AUGMENTATION
    The increase of the crown's revenues from the suppression of religious houses and the appropriation of their lands and revenues. Also the name of a court (now abolished) erected 27 Hen. VIII., to determine suits and controversies relating to monasteries and abbey-lands. Augusta legibus soluta non est. The empress or More...
  • AULA
    In old English law. A hall, or court; the court of a baron, or manor; a court baron. Spelman. —Aula ecclesis. A nave or body of a church where temporal courts were anciently held.— Aula regis. The chief court of England in early Norman times. It was established by William More...
  • AULNAGE
    See ALNAGER.
  • AULNAGER
    See ALNAGER.
  • AUMEEN
    In Indian law. Trustee; commissioner; a temporary collector or supervisor, appointed to the charge of a country on the removal of a zemindar, or for any other, particular purpose of local investigation or arrangement.
  • AUMIL
    In Indian law. Agent; officer; native collector of revenue; superintendent of a district or division of a country, either of the part of the government zemindar or renter.
  • AUMILDAR
    In Indian law. Agent; the holder of an office; an intendant and collector of the revenue, uniting civil, military, and financial powers under the Mohammedan government.
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