troversies arising in relation to money and taxes, all but those of the most difficult nature and highest concern, which were referred to the courts of judicature.

APODECTÆI, in the Athenian government, officers appointed to see that the measures of corn were just.in a general sense; denotes things without feet. Zoologists apply the name to a fabulous sort of birds, said to be found in some of the islands of the new world, which, being entirely without feet, support themselves on the branches of trees by their crooked bills.

in the Linnaean system, the name of the first order of fishes, or those which have no belly fins. See Ichthyology Index.