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Allocation

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

An allowance upon an account in the English Exchequer.

Cowell.

Placing or adding to a thing.

Encyc. Loud. ALL0CAT0 COMITATU.

A new writ of exigent, allowed before any other county court, issued on the former not being fully served or complied with.

Fitz. Exigent 14.

ALLOCATUR (Lat, it is allowed). A Latin word formerly used to denote that a writ or order was allowed.

See State v. Vanderveer, 7 N. J. L. 38.

A word denoting the allowance by a master or prothonotary of a bill referred for his consideration, whether touching costs, damages, or matter of account.

Lee, Diet; Archb. Pr. 129.

Where an appeal can be taken only by permission of the court, it is said to be by special allocatur.