Alleging Diminution
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The allegation in an appellate court of some error in a subordinate part of the record below. ALLEVIARE (Law Lat.) In old records. To levy or pay an accustomed fine or composition.
Cowell.
To redeem by such payment.
Burrill.
ALLIANCE (Lat. ad, to, Ugare, to bind). The union or connection of two persons or families by marriage; affinity. ——In International Law. A contract, treaty, or league between two sovereigns or states, made to insure their safety and common defense. Alliances are defensive, or offensive. (1) Defensive alliances are those in which a nation agrees to defend her ally in case she is attacked. (2) Offensive alliances are. those in which nations unite for the purpose of making an attack, or jointly waging the war against another nation. Alliances may be at the same time offensive and defensive; and most offensive alliances are of this character. Vattel, bk.
3, c. 6, § 79; 2 Dall. (Pa.) 15.