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In old Scotch law. Eyre; a circuit, eyre, or iter.

In Spanish law. A congress of persons; the municipal councl’ of a city or town. 1 White, Coll. 416; Friedman v. Goodwin, 9 Fed. Cas. 818.

A term used in heraldry, signifying blue.

See AIEL.

A BID on a LIMIT ORDER that is lower than the current price, or an ASK that is higher than the current price. The order is held for later execution unless it is specifically identified as an ALLORNONE ORDER (i.e., FILL OR KILL).

When a buy order is lower and the sell order is higher than the current market value.

A crop sown before the expiration of a tenancy, which cannot ripen until after its expiration, to which, however, the tenant is entitled. Broom, Max. 412.

A pleading In the action of replevin, by which the defendant avoivs, that is, acknowledges, the taking of the distress or property complained of, where lie took It in his own right, and sets forth the reason of it; as for rent in arrear, damage done, etc. 3 Bl. Comm. 149; 1 Tidd. Pr. 045. Brown y. Bissett, 21 N. J. Law, 274; Hill v. Miller, 5 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 357. Avowry is the setting forth, as in a declaration, the nature and merits of the defendant’s case, showing that the distress taken by him was lawful, which must be done with such sufficient authority as will entitle him to a retor- no habendo. Hill v. Stocking, 6 Hill (N. Y.) 284. An avowry must be distinguished from a justification. The former species of plea admits the plaintiff’s ownership of the property, but alleges a right in the defendant sufficient to warrant him in taking the property and which still subsists. A justification, on the other hand, denies that the plaintiff had the right of property or possession in the subject-matter, alleging it to have been in the defendant or a third person, or avers a right sufficient to warrant the defendant in taking it, although such right has not continued in force to the time of making answer

In old English statutes. A measure of wine, or vessel containing forty gallons.

In English law. An adulterer with whom a married woman continues in adultery. Termes de la Ley.