Alias dictus

“Otherwise called.” This phrase (or its shorter and more usual form, edéas,) when placed between two names in a pleading or other paper, indicates that the same person is known by both those names. A fictilions name assumed by a& person is colloquially termed an “alias,”

Otherwise called. Alias, in the expression " A, alias B," denotes that those names are different descriptions of the same person. The word was formerly employed in connection with <j!c(its— otherwise called. The use of alias alone to express the whole meaning has long obtahied. The term has become familiar as equivalent to " otherwise called" or "otherwise known as." Generally the true name precedes the alias dictus. The term so. used will avoid a variance or misnomer.' > A. S. ealderman, elder-man, elder: eald, old. » Brown's Law Diet.; Spelman, Gloss. s Purdy v. People, 4 HHl, 409, 38r (1842), Walworth, Ch. See 1 Hume, Eng. 69. * [Bouvier's Law Diet.] ' Pronounced a'-le-a-to-ry. L. alea, a die: chance. •Moore v. Johnston, 8 La. An. 489 (1852); Henderson V. Stone, 6 Mart. 690 (1823); May, Ins. § 5. 3. At another time; formerly; before. An alias execution is a process issued, upon a scire facias or othei-wise, where the original execution has been returned, lost, or legally extinguished as a writ. It is another and different execution actually issued at a different time.'

Defined under At.Tas.L in A Dictionary of Law.