a celebrated town and fort of Hindustan, in the Punjab, on the eastern bank of the Indus, in Long. 72° 20', Lat 33° 54'. The locality is of importance, both in a military and commercial point of view, as the Indus is here crossed by the great route which, proceeding from Cabool eastward, through the Kyber pass into the Punjab, forms the main line of communication between Afghanistan and Northern India. The river was here repeatedly crossed by the British armies during the late military operations in Afghanistan; and, according to the general opinion, it is the place where Alexander, Tamerlane, and Nadir Shah crossed the river in their respective invasions of India. The Emperor Akbar built the present fortress in 1851. (n.t.)

ATTORNEY-at-Law is one who is put in the place, stead, or turn of another (attornatus), to manage or conduct his law proceedings or affairs. The term is used in England to denote the class of legal practitioners whose functions are preparatory to those of the barrister or advocate. See Agent.

Before the statute of Morton, 28th Hen. III., c. 10, which authorized any freeman to make attorney, every suitor was obliged to appear in person to prosecute or defend his suit (according to the old Gothic constitution), unless by special license under the king's letters-patent; and at present it is the common course for the plaintiff and defendant to appear by attorney, upon the principle of convenience, in the same manner as, according to Justinian, took place

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1 This inscription was first published by Chandler from a most inaccurate transcript, together with a Latin version, also very indifferently executed. It was afterwards given by Boeckh, in the appendix, to his Staatskunst und der Athener, where he corrected many of Chandler's errors; and he has since repeated it with some additional improvements in his Corpus of Greek Inscriptions, p. 141. The date, mutilated at the end, is either Olymp. 114. 4, or 115. 3.