Aid

Ayde. [from Fr. aide; Lat. auxi- Hum, adjutorium, subsidivm.^ In feudal law. A kind of pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord, on occasions of peculiar emergency, and which was one of the incidents of teniu-e in chivalry, or by knight's service. Aids were principally of three kinds: to ransom the lord's person, if taken prisoner; to make his eldest son a knight, Ipurfaire V eigne JUz chivaler;) and to marry hia eldest daughter, {pur l' eigne file marier.) 2 £L Com. 63, 64.

Stat. Westm. 1, c. 36.

Spelma Uf voc.

Auxilium, 2 Beeves' Hist. KL. 111. 3 Kent's Com. 604.

See Auxilium.

See Auxilium.

In English law

A subsidy granted to the king.

Stat. 14 Mw. III. st. 2, c. 1. Cawell.

In old pleading. Help or assistance in defending an action. See Aid Prayer. In criminal law. Assistance given to the commission of a crime.

Stat. Westm. 1, c. 14.

Aid in this sense, according to Lord Coke, comprehends all persons counselling, abetting, plotting, assenting, consenting and encouraging to do an act, and who are not present when the act is done.

2 Inst. 182.

See Aider, Aiding. To AID. To help or assist. See Aid, Abet. To remedy or cure. An error, defect or omission in pleading is sometimes aided bj the adverse party t^ing no notice of it, or by verdict.

1 Saund. 228, note (1).

See Toemre.

See Toemre.