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  • ADHIBERE
    In the civil law. To apply; to employ; to exercise; to use. Adhihere diligentiam, to use care. Adhibere vim, to employ force.
  • ADIATION
    A term used in the laws of Holland for the application of property by an executor. Wharton.
  • ADIEU
    L. Fr. Without day. A common term in the Year Books, implying final dismissal from court.
  • ADIPOCERE
    A waxy substance (chemically margarate of ammonium or ammoniacal soap) formed by the decomposition of animal matter protected from the air but subjected to moisture; in medical jurisprudence, the substance into which a human cadaver is converted which has been buried for a long, time in a saturated soil or More...
  • ADIRATUS
    Lost; strayed; a price or value set upon things stolen or lost as a recompense to the owner. Cowell.
  • ADIT
    In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage into a mine; the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; a horizontal excavation in and along a lode. Electro-Magnetic M. & D. Co. v. Van Auken, 9 Colo. 204, 11 Pac. 80; More...
  • ADITUS
    An approach; a way; a public way. Co. Litt 56a.
  • ADJACENT
    Lying near or close to; contiguous. The difference between adjacent and adjoining seems to be that the former implies that the two objects are not widely separated, though they may not actually touch, while adjoining imports that they are so joined or united to each other that no third object More...
  • ADJECTIVE LAW
    The aggregate of rules of procedure or practice. As opposed to that body of law which the courts are established to administer, (called "substantive law,") it means the rules according to which the substantive law is administered. That part of the law which provides a method for enforcing or maintaining More...
  • ADJOINING
    The word "adjoining," in its etymological sense, means touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near to or adjacent. And the same meaning has been given to it when used in statutes. See ADJACENT
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