Ambidexter

ambodexter, i: One who uses both hands with equal facility. Hence one, as a sheriff or a juror, or an attorney, who takes money from both sides. instrument being on its face complete and sic or collateral matter. Ambiguitas patens: son of an uncertainty which arises upon the Ambiguitas patens nulla veriflcatione guity is helped by no averment Ambiguitas Teriflcatione sappletnr, nam quod ex Teriflcatione facti to Uitar: a latent supplied (or helped) by averment for that out of a fact [an extrinsic fact] is [may be] of the fact [as it really is], v. Ambiguus;

&killful with both hands; one who plays on both sides. Applied anciently to an attorney who took pay from both sides, and subsequently toa juror guilty of the same offense. Cowell. Ambigua responsio contra proferentem est accipie da. An ambiguous answer is to be taken against (is not to be construed in favor of} him who offers it. 10 Coke, 59. Ambiguis casibus semper presumitur pro rege. In doubtful cases, the presumption always is in behalf of thecrown. Lofft, Append. 248.

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Lat. [from ambo, both, and dexter, the right hand.] One that can use his left hand as well as his right, or that plays or acts on both sides. Applied by Bracton to sheriffs and other bailiffs who took from both sides, (qui capiunt ex utraque parte.) Bract. fol. 117 a. Applied in more modern law to jurors who took money from both sides for giving their verdict. Termes de la ley. Cowell. Blount. See Embracer.

It is intended by this Latin word to designate one who plays on both sides; in a legal sense it is taken for a juror or embraceor who takes money from Si ies for giving his verdict. is aglacrine rete: done in the United States.