576 A U T 
AU'TER DROI'T, f In law, another’s right! where 
perfons fue or are fued, or claim, not in their own right, 
but in the right of another; as executors and admini- 
flrators. 
AUTERFOI'TS ACQUI'T, a former acquittal, is a 
fpecial plea in bar of an indidlment, when a perfon hath 
been formerly indidled of the fame offence, and acquit¬ 
ted ; for no man fhall be brought into jeopardy of his life 
more than once for the fame offence.—Of the like fort is 
the plea of autcrfoits convifl, ora former conviction for the 
fame identical crime, though no judgment was given 
thereupon, as being fufpended by the benefit of clergy 
or other caute. —Autcrfoits attaint , a former attainder, 
either for the fame or any other felony, is another plea in 
bar ; for the offender having by the attainder forfeited all 
that he had, it would be abfurd to endeavour to attaint 
him a fecond time. 4 Black.3 35. 
AUTERl'VE, a town of France, in the department 
ofHie Upper Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diflrift of Muret, on the Arriege, fiiieen miles fouth of 
Touloufe. 
AUTHEN'TIC, adj. [authcvtiquey Fr. autkenticus , Lat. 
of avBeiflnt©'', of Gr. authority.] That which has 
every thing requifite to give it authority; as, an authen¬ 
tic regifter. It is ufed inoppofitidn to any thing by which 
authority is deftroved, as, authentic , not counterfeit. It 
is never ufed of perfons. Genuine ; not fidtitious : 
But cenfure’s to be underflood 
The authentic mark of the eledl, 
The (lamp heav’n fets on all that's great and good. Swift. 
AUTHEN'TFC AL, adj. Not fictitious; being what it 
feems.—Of flatutes made before time of memory, we 
have no authentical records, but only tranfcripts. Hale. 
AUTHEN'TIC ALLY, adv. After an authentic man¬ 
ner; with all the circumltances requifite to procure au¬ 
thority.—Confcience never commands or forbids any 
thing authentically, but there is fome law of God which 
commands or forbids it firfl. South. 
AUTEN'TICALNESS, /. The quality of being au¬ 
thentic; genuinenefs ; authority.—Nothing can be more 
pleafant than to fee virtuofos about a cabinet of medals, 
defcanting upon the value, rarity, and authenticalnefs, of 
the feveral pieces. Acldifon. 
To AUTHENTICATE, v. a. To give authenticity 
or creditto. 
AUTHENTICITY, f Authority; genuinenefs; the 
being authentic. 
AUTHEN'TICLY, adv. After an authentic manner. 
AUTHEN'TICNESS, f. The fame with Authen¬ 
ticity. 
AUTHI'E, a river of France, which runs into the fea 
eight miles north from the mouth of the Somme, and 
feparates the department of the Straits of Calais from the 
department of the Somme, through almolt its whole 
con rfe. 
. AUTKION', a river of France, which runs into the 
Loire two miles fouth of Angers. 
AUTHON', a town of France, in the department of 
the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton in the 
diftridt of Nogent le Rotrou ; fix leagues weft-north-weft 
of Chateaudun. 
AU'THOR, f [auttor, Lat.] The firfl beginner or 
mover of any thing ; he to whom any thing owes its ori¬ 
ginal.—That law, the author and obferver whereof is one 
only God, to be blelfed for ever. Hooker. 
But Faunus came-from Picus, Picus drew 
His birth from Saturn, if records be true. 
Thus king Latinus, in the third degree, 
Had Saturn author of his family. Dryden. 
The efficient; he that effedls or produces any thing.— 
That which is the flrength of^their amity, (hall prove 
the immediate author of their variance. Shakefpeare. —The 
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firfl writer of anything; diflindl from the tranfiator or 
compiler.—An author has the choice of-hisown thoughts 
and words, which a tranfiator has not. Dryden.— A writer 
in genera!. 
AU'THORESS, f. A female in any of thofe capaci¬ 
ties which give the title of author.—She was probably 
the foundrefs of that fchool of female learning, of which 
(with herfelf) there were no lefs than four aulhorejfcs in 
thcee defcents. Walpole. 
All with united grief the lofs bemoan. 
Except the auth'refs of his fate alone. Waljh. 
AUTHORITATIVE, adj. Having due authority; 
having an air of authority.—I dare not give them the au~ 
thoritative title of aphorifms, which yet may make a rea- 
fonable moral prognoflic. Wotton. 
AUTHORITATIVELY, adv. In an authoritative 
manner; with a fliow of authority ; with due authority.™ 
No law foreign binds in England, till it be received, and 
authoritatively engrafted, into the law of England. Hale. 
AUTHOR'ITATIVENESS, f. An adting by autho¬ 
rity ; authoritative appearance. 
AUTHORITY, f. \_auHoritas, Lar.] Legal power.™ 
Adam’s fovereignty, that by virtue of being proprietor 
of the whole world, he had any authority over men, 
could not have been inherited by any of his children, 
Loche. 
Idle old man, 
That flill would manage thofe authorities 
That he hath given a\vay. Shakefpeare. 
Influence; credit.—Power, arifing from flrength, is al¬ 
ways in thofe that are governed, who are many; but au¬ 
thority, ariiing from opinion, is in thofe that govern, who 
are few. Temple. —The woods are fitter to give rules than 
cities, where thofe that call themfelves civil and rational 
go out of their way by the authority of example. Locke. 
—-Power; rule.—But I fuffer not a woman to teach, nor 
to ufurp authority over the man, but to be in fiience, 
1 Tim. ii. 12.—Support; jollification ; countenance; tef- 
timony.—We urge authorities in tilings that need not, and 
introduce tiie teiiimony of ancient writers, to confirm 
tilings evidently believed. Brown. —Weight of teflimony ; 
credibility ; cogency of evidence.—They confider the 
main confent of all the churches in the whole world, 
witneffing the (acred authority of fcriptures, ever fince tiie 
firfl publication thereof, even till this prefent day and 
hour. Hooker. 
Authority, legally confidered, is a power delegated 
to do fomething; it is fometimes given by word, but 
generally in writing: alfo it is by writ, warrant, commif- 
fion, letter, of attorney, &c. The authority given by let¬ 
ter of attorney mud be executed during the life of the 
perfon that gives it; becaufe the letter of attorney is to 
conflitute the attorney my reprefentative for fuch a pur- 
pofe, and therefore can continue in force only daring the 
life of rfie that am to be reprefented. But if any corpo¬ 
ration aggregate, as a mayor and commonalty, or dean 
and chapter, make a feoffment and letter of attorney to 
deliver feifin, this authority does not determine by the 
death of the mayor or dean, but the attorney may well 
execute the power after their death: becaufe the letter 
of attorney is an authority for the body aggregate, which 
fubfifts after the death of the mayor or dean, and there¬ 
fore may be reprefented by their attorney ; but if the 
dean or mayor be named by their own private name, and 
die before livery, or be removed, livery after feems no! 
good. Co. Lit. 52. 
In many cafes authorities mufl be flridtly executed ac¬ 
cording to the power given. If a man devife that his 
executors (hall fell his land, this gives but a naked au¬ 
thority; and tiie lan^ls, till the fale is made, defeend to 
the heir at law ; and in this cafe all mufl join in the fale ; 
and if one die, it being a bare authority, cannot furvive 
to the reft. Co. Lit. xiz. But if a man by will give land 
to 
