Amicable Compounders
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
"There are two sorts of arbitrators, — ^the arbitrators properly so called, and the amicable compounders. The arbitrators ought to determine as judges, agreeably to the strictness of law. Amicable compounders are authorized to abate something of the strictness of the law in favor of natural equity. Amicable compounders are in other respects subject to the same rules which are provided for the arbitrators by the present title." Civ. Code La. arts.
3109, 3110.
AMICUS CURIAE (Lat. a friend of the court). One who, for the assistance of the court, gives information of some matter of law in regard to which the court is doubtful or mistaken.
Coke, 2d Inst. 178; 2 Viner, Abr. 475.
The information may extend to any matter of which the court takes judicial cognizance.
8 Coke, 15.
AMITTERE CURIAM (Lat. to lose court). To be excluded from the right to attend court. St. Westminster II. c.
44.