Ancillary

Aiding auxiliary; attendant upon; subordinate; a proceeding attendant upon or which aids another proceeding considered as principal. Steele v. Insurance Co., 31 App. Div. 389, 52 N. Y. Supp. 873.

— Ancillary administration. When a decedent leaves property in a foreign state, (a state other than that of his domicile.) administration may be granted in such foreign state for the purpose of collecting the assets and paying the debts there, and bringing the residue into the general administration. This is called "ancillary" (auxiliary, subordinate) administration. Pisano v. Shanley Co.., 66 N. J. Law, 1, 48 Atl. 61S; In re Gable's Estate, 79 Iowa. 178, 44 N. W. 352. 9 L. R A. 218; Steele v. Insurance Co., supra

— Ancillary attachment. One sued out in aid of an action already brought, its only office being to hold the property attached under it for the satisfaction of the plaintiff's demand Templeton v. Mason, 107 Tenn. 625, 65 S. W. 25; Southern California Fruit Exch. v. Stamm, 9 N. M. 361. 54 Pac. 345.

— Ancillary bill or snit. One growing out of and .auxiliary to another action or suit, either at law or in equity, such as a bill for discovery, or a proceeding for the enforcement of a judgment, or to set aside fraudulent transfers of property. Co.ltrane v. Templeton, 106 Fed. 370, 45 C C. A. 328: In re Williams, (E>. O) 123 Fed 32i; Claflin v. McDermott (a C.) 12 Fed. 375.

Attendant upon; auxiliary; subordinate. under a power is thus ancillary to the deed containing administration taken out where assets are prior administration taken out in another intestate died.

Aiding; auxiliary; at tendant upon; subordinate; a proceeding attendant upon or which aids another proceeding considered as principal.

Attendant upon; auxiliary;

[L. Lat, ancillaris, from ancilla, a hand-maid.] Attendant upon; subservient to; auxiliary; subordinate; dependent. An appointment is said to be ancillary to the former deed containing the power of appointment. 1 Steph. Com. 507. An administration is said to be ancillary, where it is taken out in the country where the assets are locally situate, and is subordinate to the original administration. 1 Story's Eq. Jur. § 583. " It is beneath the dignity of the king's courts to be merely ancillary to other inferior jurisdictions." 3 Bl. Com. 98. Lord Hobart says of a clause beginning with a videlicet or scilicet, that it " is a clausula ancillaris, a kind of hand-maid to another clause, and to deliver her mind, not her own. And therefore it is a kind of interpreter; her natural and proper use is to particularize that that is before general, or distribute that that is in gross, or expl^n that that is doubtful or obscure." Hob. 172.