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  • ADJUDICATIO
    In the civil law. An adjudication. The judgment of the court that the subject-matter is the property of one of the litigants; confirmation of title by judgment. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 204.
  • ADJUDICATION
    The giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree in a cause; also the judgment given. The term is principally used in bankruptcy proceedings, the adjudication being the order which declares the debtor to be a bankrupt. In French law. A sale made at public auction and upon competition. Adjudications are More...
  • ADJUNCTIO
    In the civil law. Adjunction; a species of accessio, whereby two things belonging to different proprietors are brought into firm connection with each other; such as interweaving, (intertextura;) welding together, (adferruminatio;) soldering together, (applumbatura) painting, (pictura;) writing, (scriptura;) building, (inaedificatio;) sowing, (satio;) and planting, {plantatio.) Inst 2, 1, 20-34; Dig. More...
  • ADJUNCTS
    Additional judges sometimes appointed in the English high court of delegates. See Shelf. Lun. 310.
  • ADJUNCTUM ACCESSORIUM
    An accessory or appurtenance.
  • ADJURATION
    A swearing or binding upon oath.
  • ADJUST
    To bring to proper relations; to settle; to determine and apportion an amount due. Flaherty v. Insurance Co., 20 App. Div. 273, 40 N. Y. Supp. 034; Miller v. Insurance Co., 113 Iowa, 211, 84 N. W. 1049; Washington County v. St. Louis, etc., It Co., 58 Mo. 376.
  • ADJUSTMENT
    In the law of insurance, the adjustment of a loss is the ascertainment of its amount and the ratable distribution of it among those liable to pay it; the settling and ascertaining the amount of the indemnity which the assured, after all allowances and deductions made, is entitled to receive More...
  • ADLAMWR
    In Welsh law. A proprietor who, for some cause, entered the service of another proprietor, and left him after the expiration of a year and a day. He was liable to the payment of 30 pence to his patron. Wharton
  • ADLEGIARE
    To purge one's self of a crime by oath.
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