Attingere
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I. To touch or reach to: to amount to. Atting:entia: amounting to. Attingunt se, or atting. se: they amount to. v. In toto se attingunt.
In the civil law. To touch; to reach to; to be allied to; to be united or connected with.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
/. To touch; amount to, attain. tainted.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat. To touch or reach to; to amount to. Qu€b summam qtiadraginta solidorvm attingunt, vel earn txcedunt; which amount to, or exceed the sum of forty shillings. Beg. Orig. 145. Attingunt se; they amount to. Yelv. 80. Qua in toto se attingunt; which in the whole amount to. See In toto se attingunt, Attingentia; amounting to. Hob. 133. To touch; to be allied to, or connected with. Nullo jure cognationis patrem sui patris attigit; by no law or principle of relationship is he allied to his grandfather. Inst. 3. 1. 8. Quialiqua affinitate r^on attingunt; who are not related by any affinity. £ract. fol. 72, 150.