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[t]o help" or "assist." A summons that may not itself reveal taxpayer assets that can be collected may nonetheless help the IRS fnd such assets.

A subsidy granted to the king; assistance in defending an action; assistance in the commission of a crime.

In feudal law. Aid, ayde: a service or payment from a vassal to his lord, on certain occasions, mainly three: to ransom the lord's person; to make his eldest son a knight (pur faire l'eigne fiz chivalier); to marry his eldest daughter (pur l'eigne file marier).

v. Tosupport, help, or assist. This word must be distinguished from its synonym “encourage,” the difference being that the former connotes active support and assistance, while the latter does not; and also from “abet,” which last word imports necessary criminality in the act furthered, while “aid,” standing alone, does not.

' 1. Help; assistance; support. Aid and abet. In common parlance, assistance, co-operation, encouragement.* Assistance rendered by acts, words of encouragement, or support; or presence, actual or constructive, to render assistance should it become necessary.^ See Decoy. Aider and abettor. One who assists another in the accomplishment of a common design or purpose. He must be aware of and consent to the design." Mere presence is not enough: something must be said or done sliowing consent to • the felonious purpose and contributing to its execution.' Aiders and abettors cannot be punished under a statute which creates a felony, unless the statute applies to all who are guilty, and not alone to the person actually committing the offense. Thus under a statute for confining in the penitentiary " any woman who shall endeavor to conceal the birth of her bastard child," aiders and abettors cannot be punished." See Conspiracy; Felony; Principal, 5; Liquor, ad fin. 1 Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. 515 (1872), Sneed, J. " Springer i>. Lewis, 22 Pa. 193 (1833), Woodward, J.; 62 Me. 526; 64 Ga. 128. ' F. aider: L. adjutare iad-jnrare), to help. 'United States v. Gooding, 12 Wheat. 476 (1827), Story, J. » Rainford v. State, BO Ala. 108 (1877), Stone, J. » Adams V. State, 05 Ind. 674-T5 (1879), cases. Hawk, J.; United States v. Snyder, 14 F. R. 556 (1882): 1 Sup. E. S. 358; 127 Mass. 17. ' Kemp V. Commonwealth, 80 Va. 450 (1885), cases. Aid and comfort. In treason, any overt let which, if successful, would advance the nterests of a treasonable design, i Actual assistance is not essential.' The subject of a foreign nation who furnished mulitions of war to the Confederates, or did an act Thich would have rendered him liable to punishment lor treason had he owed allegiance to the United 3tates, gave "aid and comfort" to the rebellion, within the meaning of the act of March 12, ISfS (12 3t. L. 830), and cannot recover the proceeds of property captured and paid into the treasury.'^ Municipal aid. Assistance rendered by i municipal or SLquasi municipal corporation, IS, a township or a county, toward some svork of internal improvement. Whence ltd bonds.^ A steam grist-mill may or may not be a work of 'haX nature.* The legislature of a State, unless restrained by the jrganic law, has the right to authorize a municipal iorporation to take stock in any work of internal improvement,, to borrow money to pay for it, and to levy I tax to repay the loan. And this authority can be lonferred in such a manner that the object may be ittaiued with or without the sanction of a popular rote.^ See Bond, Municipal; Corporate, Purpose. 2. Cure, remedy, supply. Whence aid ind aider by vei-dict. See Verdict. Aid societies. See Benefit, Society.

A service or payment due from tenants in chivalry to their lords; usually either to ransom the lord's person; pur faire I'eigne fitz chivaler, to make the eldest son a knight; or pur I'eigne file marier, to marry the eldest daughter.

Ayde. [from Fr. aide; Lat. auxi- Hum, adjutorium, subsidivm.^ In feudal law. A kind of pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord, on occasions of peculiar emergency, and which was one of the incidents of teniu-e in chivalry, or by knight's service. Aids were principally of three kinds: to ransom the lord's person, if taken prisoner; to make his eldest son a knight, Ipurfaire V eigne JUz chivaler;) and to marry hia eldest daughter, {pur l' eigne file marier.) 2 £L Com. 63, 64. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 36. Spelma Uf voc. Auxilium, 2 Beeves' Hist. KL. 111. 3 Kent's Com. 604. See Auxilium. In English law. A subsidy granted to the king. Stat. 14 Mw. III. st. 2, c. 1. Cawell.

In old pleading. Help or assistance in defending an action. See Aid Prayer. In criminal law. Assistance given to the commission of a crime. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 14. Aid in this sense, according to Lord Coke, comprehends all persons counselling, abetting, plotting, assenting, consenting and encouraging to do an act, and who are not present when the act is done. 2 Inst. 182. See Aider, Aiding. To AID. To help or assist. See Aid, Abet. To remedy or cure. An error, defect or omission in pleading is sometimes aided bj the adverse party t^ing no notice of it, or by verdict. 1 Saund. 228, note (1). See Toemre.