Alias

Lat. Otherwise; at another time; in another manner; formerly.

— Alias dictns. "Otherwise called." This phrase (or its shorter and more usual form, alias,) when placed between two names in a pleading or other paper indicates that the same person is known by both those names. A fictitious name assumed by a person is colloquially termed an "alias." Ferguson v. State, 134 Ala. 63, 32 South. 760, 92 Am. St. Rep. 17; Turns v. Co.m., 6 Mete. (Mass.) 235; Kennedy v. People, 1 Cow. Or. Rep. (N. Y.) 119.

— Alias writ. An alias writ is a second writ issued in the same cause, where a former writ of the same kind had been issued without effect In such case, the language of the second writ is, "We command you, as we have before [sicut alias] commanded you," etc. Roberts v. Church, 17 Conn. 142 ; Farris v. Walter, 2 Colo. App. 450, 31 Pac. 231.

I. Otherwise; at another time; on another occasion; formerly; before. A word in the Latin forms of English writs referring to a writ issued before in the same causa v. Prcecipimus, etc.; Sicut. Alias dictus: otherwise called; a term used to denote a further description of a person.

In practice. Formerly; hitherto; at another time. An elias writ is a sueond writ issued in the same ciuuse, where a former writ of the same kind had been issued without effect. In such case, the language of the second writ is, “We command you, as we have before [sieut alias] commanded you,” etc.

/. Otherwise; at another time; formerly. Alias dictus: otherwise called. Alias -writ: a second writ, issued after a previous one has been issued in the same cause without effect.

Lat.

In practice. Otherwise. See Alias dicttis. At another time, on another occasion, formerly, before. A word used in the Latin forms of English writs from a very early period, in cases where a writ of the same kind had been issued before, referring to such writ. Prcecipimus tibi sicut alias tibi prcecepimus, &c. Bract, fol. 74 b, 441 a. Reg. Orig. 65, 6^ passim. 1 Reeves^ Hist, E, L. 485. This clause has been literally translated in the English forms; ("We command you, as we have before commanded you,") and constitutes an essential part of the modem writs of cap Oxis ad respondendum, fieri fada^, capiat ad satisfaciendum, and other writs, where a writ of the same description has been previously issued without effect, and returned by the sheriff or other officer; the new or second writ being commonly termed an alias writ, and the distinctive clause above given, the alias clause. 3 Bl. Com. 283. 1 Tidd's Pr. 128. 1 Archb. Pr. 292. ALLAJ3 DICTUS, or ALIAS. L. Lat.

In practice. Otherwise called; otherwise. A term used in legal proceedings to denote a second or further description of a person who has gone by two or more different names. Thus, if the same person is known by the name of John Brown as well as the name of John Smith, he is described in civil and criminal pleadings, and in legal language generally, as John Smith, otherwise call^ {alias dictus, or alias,) John Brown: and such second name is called his alias. Archb. Crim. PL 28. Dger, 60 b. Wharton's Am. Crim. Law, 67, 68. A similar expression is used in describing a defendant when sued on an instrument in which he is described by a name different from his ordinary or real name. Jacob.

practice. This word is prefixed to the name of a second writ of the same kind issued in the same cause; as, when a summons has been issued and it is returned by the sheriff, nihil, and another is issued, this is called an alias summons. The term is used to all kinds of writs, as alias fi. fa., alias vend. exp. and the like. Alias dictus, otherwise called, a description of the defendant by an addition to his real name of that by which he is bound in the writing; or -when a man is indicted and his name is uncertain he may be indicted as A B, alias dictus C D.