Law Dictionary

Atha, which see.

To seize and hold a defendant or his property in the custody of the law. See 62 Ohio St. 543, 78 Am. St. Rep. 743, 57 N. E. 446.

One attached to the suite of an ambassador; one attached to a foreign legation. ATTACHIAMENTA DE SPINIS ET boscis. A privilege granted to the officers of a forest to take to their

A certificate required by statute, in some states, to be given by a third person who is found in possession of property subject to an attachment in the sherifi’s hands, setting for

L. Lat Attachment. —Attachiamenta bonorum. A distress formerly taken upon goods and chattels, by the legal attaohiators or bailiffs, as security to answer an action for personal es

A distress formerly taken upon goods and chattels, by the legal attaohiators or bailiffs, as security to answer an action for personal estate or debt

Attachment of pleas of the crown. Jewison v. Dyson. 9 Mees. & W. 544.

A privilege granted to the officers of a forest to take to their own use thorns, brush, and windfalls, within their precincts. Ivenn. Par. Antiq. 209.

The right of forest officers to appropriate thorns and brushwood.

In old English law. An attachment. Attachiamenta bonorum, attachment of goods. Spelman; Reg. Orig. 18. Solemnitas attachiamentorum, the formality of attachments; the practice of is

To attach.

One who has caused an attachment to be issued and levied on property of his debtor.

Lat. An attachment. Bract, fol. 439 b. 440. Beg- Orig. 18, et passim, Spelman. Solennitas attackiamentorum; the formality of attachments; the old practice of issuing one attachment

attachment is wholly the creature of, and controlled by, the law of the state; property and persons within the state can be subjected to the operation of that local law; power over

From and after which declaration, the goods, money or effects, so attached, shall remain in the officer's power, and be by him secured, in order to answer and abide the judgment of

A name given in some states to a process of garnishment for the satisfaction of a judgment. As to the judgment debtor it is an execution; but as to the garnishee it is an original

an attachment will lie for a contempt in not performing an award of Referees... appears clearly to have been agreeable to the common law prior to the statute of 9 and 10. W. 3. whi

Attachment laws are legal modes of acquiring title to property by operation of law. They exist in every State for the furtherance of justice, with more or less of liberality to cre

Not having been released, it remained in the custody of the officer, subject to the judgment of the court. An interest was vested in him, for the purposes of that judgment. The jud

There is no doubt that under the statutes of Connecticut, as usual elsewhere, a garnishment reaches only effects of the defendant in the hands of the garnishee at the time of servi

In English law. A process by which a man, by virtue of his privilege, calls another to litigate in that court to which he himself belongs, and who has the privilege to answer there

One of the three courts formerly held in forests. The highest court was called "justice in eyre's seat;" the middle, the "swainmote;"

Court of In forest law. The lowest of the forest courts, held before the verderors of the forest once in every forty days, to receive from the foresters or keepers their attachment

See Assault; Collaterally. ATTAINT)ER.2 Staining; corrupting; pollution of blood; extinguishment of inheritable quality of blood. When sentence of death is pronounced the immediate

That extinction of civil rights and capacities which takes place whenever a person who has committed treason or felony receives sentence of death for his crime. 1 Steph. Comm. 408;

BILL OF. See "Bill of Attainder."

Pleading guilty before a court or abjuring the realm before a coroner.

Adjudging one who has fled to be an outlaw.

Finding one guilty by a jury.

Attainted, stained, or blackened. A writ which lies to inquire whether a jury of twelve men gave a false verdict. Bracton, lib. 4, tr. 1, c. 134; Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22, § 8. This la

atteint, attaynt, taynt, I. fr. In old English law. Attainted; convicted or f oufid guilty of some offense; defeated in an action. Attain de disseisin: convicted of disseisin. Atta

In French law. The gain of a suit. Estre attaint en uncan cas, to be overcome in any case. Cowell.

Fr. [L.-Lat. attincttis,] In old Eng Ush law. Attainted; convicted or found guilty of some offence. Attaint de disseisin; convicted of disseisin. Stat, Westm. 1, c. 24. Defeated in

1. Otherwise; also used for — Alias dictus. Otherwise called. Alias, in the expression " A, alias B," denotes that those names are different descriptions of the same person. The wo

The term “AT&T Consent Decree” means the order entered August 24, 1982, in the antitrust action styled United States v. Western Electric, Civil Action No. 82–0192, in the Unite

Atha, which see.

ateisament, atteynement, atteynanment, I fr. Effectually; strenuously; to remain forever.

I. fr. To attaint, to convict; attainder, conviction. To attain, to obtain; to meet; to abide by. Atteint, atteynt, atteyntc, atteintz: attaint, attainted; convicted, found guilty;

In criminal law. An endeavor to accomplish a crime carried beyond mere preparation for it, but falling short of the ultimate design. 5 Cush. (Mass.) 367. The elements are (1) inten

an attempt to fit out and arm is made an offence. This is certainly doing something short of a complete fitting out and arming. To attempt to do an act does not, either in law or i

the employment of methods, means and practices which would, if successful, accomplish monopolization, and which, though falling short, nevertheless approach so close as to create a

One who owes a duty or service to another, or in some sort depends upon him. Termes de la Ley. title of the owner. Thus, to raise a portion for younger children, it was quite commo

Long leases or mortgages so arranged as to protect the title of the owner.—Bouvier Law Dictionary.

The term "attending physician" means, with respect to an individual, the physician (as defined in subsection (r)(1)), the nurse practitioner (as defined in subsection (aa

To attempt.

In the civil and canon law. Anything whatsoever wrongfully innovated or attempted in the suit by the judge a quo, pending an appeal. 1 Add. Ecc. 22, note; Ayliffe, Par. 100. ATTERM

Consideration; notice. The phrase "your bill shall have attention" was held to be ambiguous and not to amount to an acceptance of the bill; 2 B. & Aid. 113.

One who owes a duty or service to another, or in some sort depends upon him. Termes dela Ley. One whio follows and waits upon another.

To delay; to postpone.

1.1. In old English law. Determination.

I. fr. Respite; adjournment; attermination.

I. fr. To adjourn; to respite; to delay. To grant further time for the payment of a debt.

The granting a time or term for the payment of a debt.

In canon law. A making terms; a composition, as with creditors. 7 Low. (U. S.) 272, 306. ATTESTATION (Lat. ad, to, testari, to witness). The act of witnessing an instrument in writ

A witness; to witness.

The witnessing of a signature and subscription as a witness thereto. See 43 Am. St. Rep. 118.

That clause wherein the witnesses certify that the instrument has been executed before them, and the manner of the execution of the same.

One who, upon being required by the parties to an instrument, signs his name to it to prove it, and for the purpose of identification. 3 Campb. 232.

One who attests or vouches for.

In Scotch practice. A person who attests the sufficiency of a cautioner, and agrees to

?. /)•. Attaint; an attaint

I. I. In old English law. An attachment

In the case of a distribution, dispensing, or possession with intent to distribute or dispense in violation of paragraph (16) of subsection (a) of this section at the retail level,

before the purchase" or "immediately after the purchase." 9 The difference in construction is determinative of a beneficial owner's liability in cases such as Provident's where suc

attile, I. I. In old English law. Tackle; rigging; furniture; equipment

Atilium, which see.

I. I. In old English law. Harnessed; tackled. Attilatus equns: a horse with his gears or harness on, for the work of the cart or plough.

In old English law. Rigging; tackle. Cowell.

An attaint.

Attainted.

To touch; to amount to.

^ To turn over: to transfer service to a new lord; to recognize as landlord the ti-ansferee of a leasehold. Attornment. The consent of a tenant to the grant of his landlord. 3 The

To attorn.

To attorn or turn over a thing, as money and goods, i. e., to assign or appropriate them to some particular use and service. Kennett, Par. Ant. 283; Cowell. ' ATTORNATO FACIENDO VE

An attorney.

To turn over; to transfer to another money or goods; to assign to some particular use or service. Kennett, Par. Ant. 283. — ^In Feudal Law. Used of a lord's transferring the homage

attnrn, attornare, atturnare, I. l, Attorner, I. fr. In old English law. To put in one's place; to appoint a substitute or attorney.

attnrn, attornare, atturnare, 1. 1. In feudal law. To attorn; to transfer or turn over. To consent to a transfer; to transfer one's self or one's services. Attornare rem: to attorn

atturnamentum, 1. 1. In old English law. Attornment V. Attornment.

In the feudal law. To attorn.

To fum over money or goods, i. e., to assign or appropriate them to some particular use or service.

1. 1. In old English law. An attornment

In old English law. An obsolete writ, which commanded a sheriff or steward of a county court or hundred court to receive and admit an attorney to appear for the person who owed sni

An attorney.

L. Fr. In old English law. An attorney. Britt c. 126.

To attorn or transfer. Que le seigniour ptuse attomer le homage et le service son tenaunt: that the lord may att(ym the homage and service of his tenant. Britt. c. 68. Si ascun ten

The attorney is the agent of his client to conduct his suit to judgment, and to superintend the execution of final process. It is true that he cannot discharge the defendant from e

WARRANT OF. See Warrant op Attorney.

See Ad Hoc.

In old practice. An attorney who practised m all the courts. Cowell.

A court officer authorized by those who employ him to represent them in litigation. See 3 Mich. 598.

confidential communications between client and attorney, are not to be revealed at any time. The privilege, indeed, is not that of the attorney, but of the client; and it is indisp

There are few of the business relations of life involving a higher trust and confidence than that of attorney and client, or, generally speaking, one more honorably and faithfully

the Attorney General, an authorized assistant of the Attorney General, a United States Attorney, [and] an authorized assistant of a United States Attorney.

The term “Attorney General” means the Attorney General of the United States. / the term “Attorney General” means the Attorney General of the United States or his designee. / The te

ed States. A member of the president's cabinet. His duties are to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme court in which the United States shall be concerned, and give his a

One having special or general authority to act for another. See 47 Barb. (N. Y.) 116.

The one whose name is entered on the record of an action or suit as the attorney of a designated party thereto. Delaney v. Husband, 64 N. J. Law, 275, 45 Atl. 265.

The third officer of the duchy court.

it is not denied that an attorney at law, in virtue of his general authority as such, is entitled to take out execution upon a judgment recovered by him for his client, and to proc