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to executors to be fold, and one of them die, the furvivors 
may fell; for the trud, being coupled with an filtered, lhall 
furvive together with it. Co. Lit. 113. 
If a letter of attorney be to make livery upon condition, 
fo as to make a conditional feoffment, and the attorney 
delivers feifin abfolutely, the livery is not good ; becaufe 
the attorney had no authority to create an abfolute fee- 
iimple ; and therefore fuch ablolute feoffment fliall not 
bind the feoffer, becaufe he gave no fuch authority. 2 
Rol. Abr. 9. If a warrant of attorney be given to make 
livery to one, and the attorney makes livery to two; or 
if the attorney had authority to make livery of black- 
acre, and he made livery ot black-acre and white-acre, though 
the attorney has in thefe cafes done more, yet there is no 
reafon that lhall vitiate what he has done purfuant to his 
power, lince what he did beyond it is a perfect nullity, 
and void. Perk. 189. If a letter of attorney be given to 
two jointly to take livery, and feoffor mak^s livery to one 
in the abfence of the other, in the name of both, this is 
void; becaufe they, being appointed jointly to receive li¬ 
very, are to be conlidered but as one. But, if a letter of 
attorney be made to three conjunElim el divifim, and two 
only make livery, this is not good, becaufe not purfuant 
to their authority ; for the delegation was to them all 
three, or to each of them feparately ; yet if the third was 
prefent at the time of the livery made by two, though he 
did not actually join with them in the aft of livery, yet 
the livery is good ; becaufe when they all three are upon 
the land for that-purpofe, and two make livery in the pre- 
fence of the third, there is his concurrence to the aft, 
though he did not join in it aftually, lince he did not dif- 
fent to it. Dyer. Ci. 1 Rol. Abr, 329- Co. Lit. 181. It a let¬ 
ter of attorney be given to A. to make livery of lands al¬ 
ready in leafe, the attorney may enter upon the leffee in 
order to make livery ; becaufe, whilft the leffee continues 
in poffeffton, the attorney cannot deliver feifin of it; ‘and 
therefore, to execute the power given him by the letter 
of attorney, it is neceffary he Ihould have a power to en¬ 
ter upon the leffee. Co. Lit. 52. Poph. 103. Dyer 131. 
If a fheriff makes a warrant to four or three, or a capias 
jointly or feverally to arreft one, two of them may arreft 
the party, for the greater expedition of juftice. Co. Lit. 
i8r. Palm.$i. So if the lord gives licence to a copy- 
holder for life, to leafe the copyhold for five years, if the 
copyhold tamdiu vixerit, and he leafes it for five years ge¬ 
nerally without limitation, this is a good execution, and 
purfuant to the licence ; for the leafe is determinable by his 
death, by a limitation in law ; and therefore as much is 
implied by law, as if he had made an aftual limitation. 1 
Rol. Abr, 330, Cro, Jac. 436. 
Authority is repreiented by a woman half naked, 
holding in one hand a fphere, with the twelve figns of the 
zodiac ; and in the other an image, which holds in one 
hand a branch of palm, and in the other a garland. Some¬ 
times as a matron, feated in a noble chair, clothed with a 
gold embroidered garment, holding a (word in her right 
hand, and a double trophy of books and arms by her fide. 
Her age denotes authority, as does alfo the throne; her 
fplendid habit, the pre-eminence perfons in authority have 
over others; the fword lifted up thews the fovereign pow¬ 
er ; the feeptre is likewife, in all nations, a badge of au¬ 
thority. 
AUTHORIZATION,/, Eftablifhment by authority. 
—The obligation of laws arifes not from their matter, but 
from their admiflion and reception, and authorization in 
this kingdom, Hale. 
To AUTHORIZE, v- a. [authorifer , Fr.] To give au¬ 
thority to any perfon ; to make any tiling legal.—To have 
countenanced him in irregularity, and difobedience to that 
light which he had, would have been, to have authorized 
diforder, confuiion, and wickednefs, in his creatures. 
lafte.—Toedablifii any thing by authority.—Thofe forms 
are bed which have been longed received and authorized 
in a nation by cudom and ufe. Temple.— To judify ; to 
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prove a thing to be right.—All virtue lies in a power ot 
denying our own defires, where reafon does not authorize 
them. Locke. —To give credit to any perfon or thing.— 
Although their intention be lincere, yet doth it notorioully 
drengthen vulgar error, and authorize opinions injurious 
unto truth. Brown. 
AUTI'RE, a river of France which runs into the Sevre, 
a little belo.v Maillerais. 
AUTI'TES,/ [from avToc, itfelf. ] A matter or medi¬ 
cine that is pure and unadulterated. 
AUTOCHTHO'NES,/. [aulo^sm?, of «„*]©-, felf, and 
Gr. the earth.] An appellation affumed by feme 
nations, importing that they lprang, or were produced, 
from the fame foil which they dill inhabited. In this 
fenfe, autochthones amounts to the fame with aboiigines. 
The Athenians valued themfelves on their being autoch¬ 
thones, ‘ felf-born,’ or ynymn;, ‘ earth-born ;’ it being the 
prevailing opinion among the ancients, that, in the begin¬ 
ning, the earth, by dome prolific power, produced men, 
as it dill does plants. The proper autochthones were 
thofe primitive men who had no other parent betides the 
earth. But the name was alfo affumed by the defeendants 
of thefe men, provided they never changed their ancient 
date, nor buffered other nations to mix with them. In tins 
fenfe it was that the Greeks, and efpecially the Athenians, 
pretended to be autochthones; and, as a badge thereof, 
wore a golden grafshopper woven in their hair, an infeft 
fuppofed to have the fame origin. 
AUTO'CRASY,/. [aerox^aTEia, from av felf, and 
yga, r©-, power.] Independent power ; fupremacy. 
AUTOGE'NEAL, adj. [of uvToysvcs, of avr©-,lelf, and 
ywocto, to beget, ytyopoci, Gr. to be begotten.] Self-be¬ 
gotten. 
AUTO'GENES,/ The narcifiius is fo called, becaufe 
its bulbous root puts forth leaves bfore it is fet in the earth, 
fo that the plant feens to fpring from itfelf. 
AUTOGRA'PHICAL, adj. Of one’s own writing. 
AUTO'GRAPHY, f. [avroygatpov, from avr^, and 
ypcetpcj, to write.] A particular perfon’s own writing ; or 
the original of a treatife, in oppolition to copy. 
AUTO'CRATOR,/ A perfon veded with an abfolute 
independent power, by which he is rendered unaccounta¬ 
ble to any other for his adtions. The power of the Athe¬ 
nian generals, or commanders, was ufually limited ; fo 
that, at the expiration of their office, they were liable to 
render an account of their adminidration. But, on fome 
extraordinary occafions, they were exempted from this 
redraint, and fent with a full and uncontroulable autho¬ 
rity ; in which fenfe they were dyled aul oxpalopies. The 
fame people alfo applied the name to fome of their ambaf- 
ladors, who were veded with full power of determining 
matters according to their own diicretion. Thefe were 
denominated trcio-a.@si<t arloxpoWe, and refembled our ple¬ 
nipotentiaries. 
AU'TO DA FE, aft of faith. See Act of Faith. 
AUTODID ACTUS,/ A perfon felf-taught, or who 
has had no mafter or aflidant of his ffudies belides himfelf. 
AUTOISON', a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Vefoul, five leagues fouth of Befanyon. 
AUTOL', a town of Spain, in Old Cathie, one league 
from Caiahorra. 
AUTOLITHO'TOMUS, /. [from himfelf, 
a done, and r to cut.] He who cuts himfelf for 
the done. Of this we have a very extraordinary indance 
given by Reilelius, in the Ephemerides of the Academy 
Datura: Cuiioforum, dec. 1. an. 3. obf. 192. 
AUTO'LOGY,/ [of avro;, and htyo, Gr. to fpeak.] 
Speaking of or to one’s felf. 
AUTO'LYCUS, in fabulous fiiftory, the fon of Mer¬ 
cury and Chione. He learned the trade of thieving from 
this god, with the power of affuming different fliapes. 
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