Ancillary

[L. Lat, ancillaris, from ancilla, a hand-maid.] Attendant upon; subservient to; auxiliary; subordinate; dependent. An appointment is said to be ancillary to the former deed containing the power of appointment.

1 Steph. Com. 507.

An administration is said to be ancillary, where it is taken out in the country where the assets are locally situate, and is subordinate to the original administration. 1 Story's Eq. Jur. § 583. " It is beneath the dignity of the king's courts to be merely ancillary to other inferior jurisdictions."

3 Bl. Com. 98.

Lord Hobart says of a clause beginning with a videlicet or scilicet, that it " is a clausula ancillaris, a kind of hand-maid to another clause, and to deliver her mind, not her own. And therefore it is a kind of interpreter; her natural and proper use is to particularize that that is before general, or distribute that that is in gross, or expl^n that that is doubtful or obscure."

Hob. 172.