Alimony

Money paid for aliment or support. The allowance which a husband, by order of court, pays to his wife, living separate The term is sometimes restricted to an allowance for a wife's support, made either pending an action for divorce, or after a decree of divorce. Alimony pendente lite is that ordered during the pendency of a suit. Permanent alimony is that ordered for the use of the wife after the termination of the suit, during their joint lives, or until the further order of the court. ALIO INTUITU (Lat.) Under a different aspect. See "Diverso Intuitu." ALIQUID CONCEDITUR NE INJURIA remaneat impunita, quod alias non concederetur. Something is conceded lest a wrong should remain unpunished which otherwise would not be conceded.

Co. Litt. 197.

ALIQUID POSSESSIONIS ET NIHIL Juris (Law Lat.) Somewhat of possession, and nothing of right (but no right). A phrase used by Bracton to describe that kind of possession which a person might have of a thing as a guardian, creditor, or the like, and also that kind of possession which was granted for a term of years, where nothing could be demanded but the usufruct. Bracton, fols.

39a, 160a.

ALIQUIS NON DEBET ESSE JUDEX IN propria causa, quia non potest esse judex et pars. A person ought not to be judge in his own cause, because he cannot act both as judge and party.

Co. Litt. 141a; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 112; Litt. § 212; 13 Q. B. 327; 17 Q. B. 1; 15 C. B. 769; 1 C. B. (N. S.) 329.

ALITER (Lat.) Otherwise; otherwise held or decided. ALIUD EST CELARE; ALIUD TACERE. To conceal is one thing; to be silent another.

3 Burrows, 1910. See 2 Wheat. (U. S.) 176; 9 Wheat. (U. S.) 631; 3 Bing. 77; 4 Taunt. 851; 2 Car. & P. 341; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 701.

ALIUD EST DISTINCTIO; ALIUD SEPAratio. Distinction Is one thing; separation another.

Bacon's arg

Case of Postnati of Scotland, Works, iv.

351.

ALIUD EST POSSIDERE; ALIUD ESSE In possesslone. It is one thing to possess; it is another to be in possession.

Hob. 163; Bracton, 206.

ALIUD EST VENDERE; ALIUD VENdenti consentire. To sell is one thing; to give consent to him who sells, another.

Dig. 50. 17. 160.

ALIUD EXAMEN (Lat.) A different or foreign mode of trial.

1 Hale, Hist. Com. Laws, 38 (30). will) may be received to explain an ambiguity in a will. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 291.