ALTY - The Law Mind Legal Dictionary

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Definition

"Alty" does not appear as a recognized legal term in standard legal dictionaries, historical or contemporary. The single source material provided — Rapalje & Lawrence — contains no entry for "Alty." The text supplied under that source is an entry for "INFORMER," an unrelated term, and appears to have been associated with this query in error.

The Wiktionary definition provided ("Altrincham Football Club") is an informal nickname for an English football club and carries no legal significance.

No legal meaning for "Alty" has been identified across available corpus sources.

Why It Matters in Research

Researchers encountering "Alty" in a legal document should treat it as likely one of the following: a typographical or OCR error in a digitized source, an abbreviation that has been truncated (possible candidates include "alty." as a period-following abbreviation for "alty" in older manuscript sources, or a fragment of a word such as "penalty," "alty" appearing in corrupted text), or an informal or colloquial reference with no independent legal definition.

If encountered in historical materials, the surrounding text and document type will be more reliable guides to meaning than any standalone dictionary entry. Corpus researchers should flag the term for manual review rather than treating it as a standalone legal concept.

Historical Dictionary Support

Rapalje & Lawrence contains no entry for "Alty." The source material provided does not support any definition for this term. No entry for "Alty" has been identified in Black's Law Dictionary, Bouvier's Law Dictionary, or other standard reference works on the Law Mind shelf. Absence from these sources is itself informative: the term does not appear to have ever held a recognized place in Anglo-American legal vocabulary.

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Rapalje & Lawrence • 1888

INFORMER, (who is). 1 Esp. 144. 578, 593. (in 14 Stat. at L. 546). 12 Ct. of Cl. the States an information in the nature of a complained of. 3 Bl. Com. 161; Guardquo warranto (q. v.) lies to try title to office, ians of St. Leonard's v. Franklin, 3 C. P. or to restrain the usurpation of a corporate D. 377; Girdlestone v. Brighton Aquarium franchise; and in nearly all of them certain misdemeanors, and lesser crimes, (generally of grades not punishable capitally or by confinement in the State prison,) may be prosecuted by information as a substitute for indictment. Also, actions for penalties given by statute, and actions by the attorney-general, both ex officio and on the relation of a private individual, are frequently commenced by information, the practice being in many respects similar to the English practice in like cases. See supra; and consult the statutes of the several States for matters of detail. See BILL OF INFORMATION; QUO WARRANTO.