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Amy, or Ami [fr. amicus, Lat.], usually called prochein amy, the next friend (as distinguished from the guardian) suing on behalf of an infant. Infants sue by a next friend and defend by a guardian ad litem; see R. S. C. Ord. XVI. R. 16; also alien amy, a friendly alien....
Alien ami, or amy
Alien ami, or amy, a subject of a nation which is at peace with this country. See ALIEN...
Ami
Ami, See AMY....
Prochein amy
Prochein amy [proximus amicus, Lat.], the next friend or next-of-kin to a child in his nonage, who in that respect is allowed to deal for the infant in the management of his affairs; as to be his guardian if he hold land in socage, and in the redress of any wrong done to him. Consult Jac. Law Dict. see NEXT FRIEND....
amicus
amicus pl: ami·ci [-mē-kē, -mī-sī] : amicus curiae ...
Allegiance
Allegiance [fr. ligo, Lat.], the natural, lawful, and faithful obedience which every subject owes to the supreme magistrate who oversteps not his prerogatives. It is either natural or perpetual, where one is a subject born, or has been naturalized; or local and temporary, where one is merely a resident in the British dominions, Co. Litt. 129 a. it is also either implied, so soon as the relationship of sovereign and subject is created; or express, which is the formal declaration of it. An alien resident within British territory owes allegiance to the Crown and maybe indicted for high treason, though not a subject, De Jager v. A. G. of natal, 1907 AC 326. It seems that the subject of a friendly state residing within the realm who violates the local allegiance which he owes to the Crown does not lose the rights of an alien amy until the Crown withdraws its protection, Johnstone v. Pedlar, 1921 AC 262. See Broom's Const. Law, Calvin's Case....
High Steward, Court of the Lord
High Steward, Court of the Lord, a tribunal instituted for the trial of peers or peeresses indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either, but not for any other offence. The office of Lord High Steward is very ancient, and was formerly hereditary, or held for life, or dum bene se gesserit; but it has been for many centuries granted pro hac vice only, and always to a lord of Parliament. When, therefore, such an indictment is found by a grand jury of freeholders in the King's Bench, or at the assizes before a judge of oyer and terminer, it is removed by a writ of certiorari into the Court of the Lord High Steward, which alone has power to determine it.The sovereign, in case a peer be indicted for treason, felony, or misprision, appoints a Lord High Ste-ward pro vice, by commission under the Great Seal, which, reciting the indictment so found, gives him power to receive and try it secundum legem et consuetudinem Angli'. When the indictment is regularly removed by certiorari, ...
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