Association
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The act of a na of persons who unite or join together for sor special purpose or business. The union 0 a company of persons for the transaction of designated affairs, or the attainment of some common object. An unincorporated society; a body of per sons united and acting together without 4 charter, but upon the methods and fornig used by incorporated bodies for the prosecute tion of some common enterprise.
In English law
A writ directing cer tain persons (usually the clerk and his subordinate officers) to associate themselves with the justices and sergeants for the purposes of taking Lhe assises.
3 Bl. Comm. 59, 60,