Allocatur

Lat. [from allocare, to allow.] In practice. It is allowed. A term used, (when the proceedings were in Latm,) to express the s Qlowance of a thing or proceeding, by a court, judge or judicial officer.* Now app Ued in England to the certificate given by the master, on taxing a bill of costs, showing the amount taxed, or allowed.

1 Tidd's Pract. 837, 500.

Used also to denote the allowance of a writ or order by a judge, which is generally done by the judge's endorsing the word '' allowed," and signing his name. Used also in the earlier reports, to denote the concession of a point by a court on ar- ^ment; though the term eoncessum (q. v.) IS more frequently employed for this purpose. Sed non allocatur, (but it is not allowed), b a common expression.