ALLOA, a port-town of Scotland, situated on the river Forth, remarkable for the coal-mines in its neighbourhood. W. long. 3^{\circ} 45', N. lat. 56^{\circ} 10'. ALLOCATION denotes the admitting or allowing of an article of an account, especially in the exchequer. Hence, Allocutione facienda is a writ directed to the lord treasurer, or barons of the exchequer, commanding them to allow an accountant such sums as he has lawfully expended in the execution of his office. ALLOCATO comitatu, a new writ of exigent allowed, before any other county court held, on a former not being complied with. See EXIGENT. ALLOCTION, in Roman antiquity, denotes an harangue made by a general to his army, frequently mentioned on ancient medals. ALLODIAL goods, in Scots law, are such as are enjoyed by the owner, independent of any other. Lands are likewise said to be allodial, when they are held without the necessity of acknowledging a superior. See LAW, title, Constitution of heritable rights. ALLODIUM, or ALLEUD, denotes lands which are the absolute property of their owner, without being obliged to pay any service or acknowledgement whatever to a superior lord. ALLOGIA, a term found in old writers on military affairs, for winter-quarters. ALLOM. See ALUM. ALLONGE, in fencing, denotes a thrust or pass at the adversary. See PASS. ALLOPHYLLUS, in botany, a genus of the octandria monogynia class. The characters are: The calix is four leaved; the leaves are globular; the flower consists of four petals, less than the calix; and the stigma is forked. There is only one species, which is found in Zeylon. ALLOTING, or ALLOTMENT of goods, in commerce, is the dividing a ship's cargo into several parts, which are to be purchased by several persons, whose names being written upon as many slips of paper, are applied by an indifferent person to the several lots; by which means the goods are divided without partiality, each man having the parcel upon which his name is fixed. ALLOWANCES, at the custom-house, to goods rated by weight, are two, viz. draught and tare. See DRAUGHT and TARE. ALLOY, or ALLAY, a proportion of a baser metal mixed with a finer one. Thus all gold coin has an alloy of silver and copper, as silver coin has of copper alone; the proportion in the former case, for standard gold, being two caratts of alloy in a pound troy of gold;