Under a grant of a right of way across the plaintiffs lot of land, the grantee has not a right to enter at one place, go partly across, and then come out at another place on the same side of the lot. Comstock v. Van Deusen, 5 Pick. (Mass.) 163. See Brown v. Meady, 10 Me. 391, 25 Am. Dec. 248. ACT, v. In Scotch practice. To do or perform judicially; to enter of record. Surety “acted in the Books of Adjournal.” 1 Broun, 4. ACT, n. In its most general sense, this noun signifies something done voluntarily by & person; the exercise of an individual’s power; an effect produced in the external world by an exercise of the power of a person objectively, prompted by intention, and proximately caused by a motion of the will. In a more technical sense, it means something done voluntarily by a person, and of such a nature that certain legal consequences . attach to it. Duncan v. Landis, 106 Fed. 839, 45 C. C. A. 666. Thus a grantor acknowledges the conveynnce to be his “act and deed,” the terms being synonymous. In the civil law. An act is a writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. Merl. Repert. In practice. Anything done by a court and reduced to writing; a decree, judgment, resolve, rule, order, or other judicial proceeding. In Scotch law, the orders and decrees of a court, and in French and German law, all the records and documents in an action, are called “acts.” In legislation. A written law, formally ordained or passed by the legislative power of a state, called in England an “act of parliament,” and in the United States an “act of congress,” or of the “legislature ;” a stat: ute. People v. Tiphaine, 3 Parker, Cr. R. (N. Y.) 241; United States v. Smith, 27 Fed. Cas. 1167. Acts are either public or private. Public acts (also called general acts, or general statutes, or statutes at large) are those which relate to the community generally, or establish a universal rule for the governance of the whole body politic. Private acts (formerly called special, Co. Litt. 126a) are those which relate either to particular persons (personal! acts) or to particular places, (local acts.) or which operate only upon specified individuals or their private concerns. In Scotch practice. An abbreviation of actor, (proctor or advocate, especially for a plaintiff or pursuer,) used in records. “Act. A. Alt. B.” an abbreviation of Actor. A. Alter, B.; that is, for the pursuer or plaintiff, A., for the defender, B. 1 Broun, 336, note. —Act book. In Scotch practice. The minute book of a court. 1 Swin. 81l.—Act in pais. An act done or performed out of court, and not a matter of record. A deed or an assurance transacted between two or more private persons in the country, that is, according to the old common law, upon the very spot to be