Citations:et alios

English citations of et alios

1. “And others”; used of people, irrespective of gender (compare: et alii, et aliae, et alia, et alibi); often abbreviated as et al.
   • 1790, Sir George Croke (also Sir Harbottle Grimston, translator, and Thomas Leach, editor), Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices of the Courts of King’s-Bench and Common-Pleas of ſuch Select Caſes as were adjuged in the Said Courts During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Collected and Written in French, by Himſelf; Reviſed and Publiſhed in Engliſh, by Sir Harbottle Grimſton, Baronet, Maſter of the Rolls, page 355:

     Pethouſe againſt Crane et Alios.

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     Freeſton againſt Standford et Alios.

   • 1816, Thomas Bayly Howell et alii, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Eariest Period to the Year 1783, pages 1150–1151 (taken from the original use in the Argument of Mr. Attorney General (Sir R. Sawyer) on April 27th, 1682, in the Second Argument of State Trial 34 Charles II):

     And they do prove, that the suit may be brought against some particular members by name: And against the rest of the corporations by the general words; as, ‘Et alios liberos homines, et alios burgenses, et alios de fraternitate’. And these general words are material and operative; for a judgement thereupon binds the whole.

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     These, and the other precedents produced by Mr. Recorder, do prove, that the king’s suit may be brought against particular persons by name, and against the residue of the corporation, by a general name of ‘et alios homines’; or against particular persons, and also against the corporation, by the very name of incorporation, as the case of Bermudas company: But they do argue the king hath not a further election, either to bring his suit for questioning the corporation, by the proper name of incorporation, without naming of particular person, or by some other general name, which sufficiently describes the persons.

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     The king’s suit, either by indictment or information, hath been used both ways, either naming some few particular inhabitants, but then always with a general reference ‘et alios inhabitantes’, which is essential, otherwise both indictment and information would be naught; or they are frequently only by the general name of inhabitants, within a parish, hundred, or county, as the case is, without naming any particular inhabitants at all.