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the perfon of their mailer. They watched his nod ; tiiey 
trembled at his frown; and at the firft fignal of his will, 
they executed without murmur or hefitation his Hern and 
abfolute commands. In time of peace, the dependent 
princes, with their national troops, attended the royal 
camp in regular fucceffion; but, when Attila collected his 
military force, he was able to bring into the field an army 
of feven hundred thou fund barbarians. For an account of 
his exploits and death, fee the article Huns. 
ATTRLE,/ \_attilium, attilamcntum.~] The rigging or 
furniture of a (hip. FLcta. lib. i. c. 25. 
To ATTIN'GE, v. a. [ altingc , Lat.] To touch lightly 
or gently. 
To ATTI'RE, v. a. \_attirer, Fr.] To drefs; to habit; 
to array With the linen mitre (hall heb e attired.Lev. xvi.4. 
Now the fappy boughs 
Attire themlelves with blooms. Philips. 
Attire, J'. Clothes; drefs; habit.—It is no more dif- 
grace to Scripture to have left things free to be ordered by 
the church, than for nature to have left it to the wit of 
man to devife his own attire. Hooker. 
Attire, In hunting, the horns of a buck or flag.— 
In botany, the flower of a plant is divided into three parts, 
the empalement, the foliation, and the attire, which is 
either florid or femiform. Florid attire, called thrums or 
Iuits, as in the flowers of marigold and tanfey, confifts 
fometimes of two, but commonly of three, parts. The 
outer part is the floret, the body of which is divided at 
the top, like the cowflip flower, into five diftinbt parts. 
Scmiform attiie confifis of two parts, the chives and apices; 
one upon each attire. 
ATTI'RER,/. One that attires another ; a dreffer. 
AT'TITUDE,/! [ attitude, Fr. from alto , Ital.] The 
pofture or action in which a ftatne or painted figure is plac¬ 
ed.—They were famous originals that gave rile to fiatues, 
with the fame air, pofture, and attitudes. Addifon. 
AT'TLEBOROUGH, a town of North America, in 
the ftate of Mailachufetts, near which magnetic iron ore 
is found. 
AT'TLEBURGH, an ancient town in the county of 
Norfolk, and, as hiftory informs us, was originally a city, 
and the metropolis of the county. It lies on the great 
poft road from London to Norwich, from which it is dif- 
tant fifteen miles, and alfo fifteen from Thetford. It has 
a market weekly on Tluirfdays : its fairs are tire Thurfday 
before Eafter, the Thurfday before Whitfunday, and the 
15th of Aug. It is diftant from London ninety-three miles. 
ATT'NANG, a town of Germany, in the archducy of 
Auftria, one mile weft.fouth-weft from Schwannaftadt. 
AT'T OCK, a city of Alia, and capital of a province of 
the fame name, at the conflux of a river of the fame name 
with the Indus, there called the Nilab, 140 miles north- 
weft of Lahore, and 158 north of Moultan. Lat. 32. 26. N. 
long. 70. 36. E. Greenwich. 
Attock, a river of Afia, which joins the Indus at the 
city of Attock. 
ATTOL'LEN’S, f. In anatomy, an apellation given to 
feveral mufcles, otherwife called Icvatores arid elevatores. 
See Anatomy. 
ATTOL'LENT, adj. [attcllens, Lat.] That which 
raifes orlifts up.—I (hall farther take notice of the exqui- 
fitelibration.of the attellent and depriment mufcles. Derham. 
ATTO'RE, a town of Hindoftan, in the Myfore coun¬ 
try, fifty-four miles north of Trichinopohg-and twenty- 
nine north-north-weft of Rajanagur. 
AT'EORNA'RE Rem,/ In law to atturnor turn over 
money and goods, viz. to alfign or appropriate them to fome 
particular ufe and fervice'. Kennel's Parock. Antiq. p. 283. 
ATTORNA'TO Faciendo vel Recipiendo, a writ 
which a man who owes fuit to a county, hundred, or other 
court, obtains to command the bailiff or lheriff to admit 
him to appear in his behalf. 
ATTOR'NEY,/! \_atiornatus, Lat. or oftfifand tour, Fr. 
a turn, q. d. every man in his turn.] Is one that is- ap¬ 
pointed by another man to do any thing in his abfence. 
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An attorney is either public, in the courts of record, the 
King’s Bench and Common Pleas, &c. and made by war¬ 
rant from his client; or private, upon flccafion for any 
particular bufinefs, who is commonly made by letter of 
attorney. In ancient times, tlrofe of authority in courts 
had it in their power whether they would fuft’er men to ap¬ 
pear or fue by any other but themfelves : and the king’s 
writs were to be obtained for the admiftion of attornies : 
but iince tliat, attornies have been allowed by feveral fia¬ 
tues. Attornies may be made in fitch pleas whereon ap¬ 
peal lietli not: in criminal cgfes there will be no attornies 
admitted. See flat. Glouc. 6 Edw.I. ftat.i.c. 8. An infant 
ought not to appear by attorney, but by guardian, for he 
cannot make an attorney, but the court may afiign him a 
guardian. 1 LilL Abr. 138. Infants, after they come to full 
age, may file by attorney, though admitted before by guar¬ 
dian, &c. In action againft baron and Feme, the feme 
being within age, (he mult appear by guardian; but, if 
they bring an action, the hulband iliall make attorney for 
both. 1 Danv. Abr. 602, Where baron and feme are fued, 
though the wife cannot make attorney, the hulband may 
do it for both of them. 2 Sard. 213. One non compos mentis, 
being within age, is to appear by guardian ; but after he 
is of age lie mull do rt by attorney. Co. Lit. 135. An ideot 
is not to appear by attorney, but in proper perfon. A 
corporation cannot appear otherwife than by attorney, who 
is made by deed under the feal of the corporation, Plozud. 91. 
Attornies at law, are fuch perfons as take upon 
them the bufinefs of other men, by whom they are retain¬ 
ed. Before the (lat. of Weft. 2.C.10. 13 Edw. I. A. D. 1285, 
all attornies w ere made by letters patent under the great 
feal, commanding the juftices to admit the perfon to be 
his attorney. Thefe patents, where they were obtaind, 
feemed to have been inrolled by a proper officer, called 
the clerk of the warrants; and alfo the courts inrolled 
thofe patents on which any proceedings were. If Inch 
letters patent could not be obtained, the perfons were 
obliged to appear each day in court in their proper per¬ 
fons. The laid flat, of Weft. 2. c. 10, gives to all perfons 
a liberty of appearing, and appointing an attorney, as if 
they had letters patent; and therefore the clerk of tlie 
warrants received each perfon’s warrant, and upon the 
warrant it equally appeared to the court, that he had ap¬ 
pointed fuch a one his attorney to the end of the caufe, 
nnlefs revoked ; fo that on each act there is no occafion 
of the plaintiff’s and defendant’s prefence, as was ufed 
before that time. This authority continues till judgment, 
and fora year and a day, and afterwards to fue out execu¬ 
tion, and for a longer time, if they continue execution ; 
but if not, tiie judgment is fuppofed to be fatisfied ; and 
to make it appear otherwife, the plantiff mu ft again come 
into court, which he either does by a feire fac' or an action 
ot debt on tiie judgment. Gitb. H. C. P. 33. 
The attornies of B. R. are of record as well as the attor¬ 
nies of C. B. And it is now the common courfe for the 
plantiff and defendant to appear by attorney. But where 
the party (lands in contempt, tiie court will not admit him 
by attorney, but oblige him to appear in perfon. Out¬ 
law ry is excepted by ftat^and j Will, and Mary, c. 18, unlefs 
where the court orders fpecial bail. By flat. 13Will. III. 
c.6, attornies are to take the oaths to government under 
penalties and difabiljty to praftife. By Hat. 1 Hen. V. c. 4, 
“ no (herifl, ffieriff’s clerk, receiver, nor ffieriffi’s bailiff, 
(hall be attorney in the king’s courts during the time he is 
in office with any fuch ffieriff.” In Trinity Term 31 Geo. 
III. a rule of court was made to prevent the admiftion of 
perfons under irregular articles of clerkffiip, &c. chiefly 
to prevent the clerks of attornies from adling as principals. 
Parties to fines, as well demandant or plantiff as tenants 
or,defendants, that will ackovvledge their right of lands 
unto others in pleas of warrantia chartec, covenant, S 3 c. be¬ 
fore the fines pafs, (hall appear perfonally, fo that their 
age, ideocy, or other default (if any be), may be difeerned ; 
provided that if any, by age, impotency, or cafualty, is 
not able to come into court, one of the juftices IhaJl go to 
that 
