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ALIAS, practice. This word is prefixed to the name of a second writ of the same kind issued in the same cause; as, when a summons has been issued andit is returned by the sheriff, nil, and another is issued, this is called analias summons. The term is used to all kinds of writs, as alias fi. fa.,alias vend. exp. and the like. Alias dictus, otherwise called; a descriptionof the defendant by an addition to his real name of that by which he isbound in the writing; or when a man is indicted and his name is uncertain,he may be indicted as A B, alias dictus C D. See 4 John. 1118; 1 John. Cas.243; 2 Caines, R. 362; 3 Caines, R. 219.

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