allegatio

allēgātĭo ( adl- ), ōnis, f. [1. allēgo].

I.

Lit., a sending or despatching to any one (in the class. per. only twice in Cic.):

cum sibi omnes ad istum adlegationes difficiles viderent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51, § 136;

and in a pun: quibus adlegationibus illam sibi legationem expugnavit,

id. ib. 17.—

II.

Fig.

A.

In gen., an alleging or adducing by way of proof, excuse, and the like:

si maritus uxorem ream faciat, an lenocinii adlegatio repellat maritum ab accusatione?

Dig. 48, 5, 2; so ib. 4, 4, 17; 23, 2, 60; App. M. 10, p. 241, 26.—

B.

Esp., in the Lat. of the jurists, an imperial rescript, Cod. Th. 16, 5, 37.