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Aleatory Contract

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In civil law

A mutual agreement, of which the effects, with respect both to the advantages and losses, whether to all the parties or to some of them, depend on an uncertain event. Civ. Code La. art.

2951.

The term includes contracts, such as insurance, annuities, and the like. ALER A DIEU (Law Fr.) ' In old practice. To be dismissed from court; to go quit.

Literally, "to go to God." Y. B. H. 2 Edw. IIL 6; Y. B. T. 5 Edw. IL 173; Y. B. H. 3 Edw, IL 75.

ALLER SANS JOUR (Fr. aller sans jour, to go without day).

In practice

A phrase formerly used to indicate the final dismissal of a case from court. The defendant was then at liberty to go, without any day appointed for his subsequent appearance.

Kitch. Cts. 146.

ALEU (Fr.) In French feudal law. An allodial estate, as distinguished from a feud-