As Of

Ift practice and pleading. A term applied to proceedings, and to rights or estates, expressive of sameness of 'legal character, effect or operation; given in the way of relation, (in the case of proceedin^,^ by mere force of law, or absolutely existmg (in the case of rights,) in point of fact. Thus, in practice, proceedings ire frequently allowed to take place, or acts to be done, (judgments to be signed, or rules entered,) as of some previous day or term, or, as it is otherwise expressed, nunc pro tunc, (now for then); that is, the judgment is, in point of fact, signed now, but signed in the same form as it would have been then, bemg dated then, and has the same effect given to it, as if it had been actually signed then. See Nunc pro tunc. In pleading, the term as of ]& applied to rights and estates, to denote actual and ab- 8<Sute verity, or sameness of legal character. Thus, a party is said to be possessed of a thing, " (m </ his own proper goods," i^t de bonis propriis); by which is meant that he was possessed of th^m in the sam^ way as one would be possessed of one's own goods; or, in other words, that the goods were, in point of fact, his own individnal and absolute property. See Holt- 18 house. The same words, " as of^* (L. Lat. ut de; L. Fr. sicome de,) form a part of the celebrated phrase, " in his demesne as of fee," which is explained in another place. See Demesne.