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  • ADMANUENSIS
    A person who swore by laying his hands on the book.
  • ADMEASUREMENT
    Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in definite and fixed proportions. —Admeasurement of dower. In practice. A remedy which lay for the heir on reaching his majority to rectify an assignment of dower made during More...
  • ADMENSURATIO
    In old English law. Admeasurement. Reg. Orig. 156, 157.
  • ADMEZATORES
    In old Italian law. Persons chosen by the consent of contending parties, to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman.
  • ADMINICLE
    In Scotch law. An aid or support to something else. A collateral deed or writing, referring to another which has been lost and which it is in general necessary to produce before the tenor of the lost deed can be proved by parol evidence. Ersk. Inst b. 4, tit. 1, More...
  • ADMINICULAR
    Auxiliary to. "The murder would be adminicular to the robbery," (i. e., committed to accomplish it.) The Marianna Flora, 3 Mason, 121, Fed. Cas. No. 9080. —Adminicular evidence. In ecclesiastical law. Auxiliary or supplementary evidence; such as is presented for the purpose of explaining and completing other evidence.
  • ADMINICULATE
    To give adminicular evidence.
  • ADMINICULATOR
    An officer in the Romish church, who administered to the wants of widows, orphans, and afflicted persons. Spelman.
  • ADMINICULUM
    Lat. An adminicle; a prop or support; an accessory thing. An aid or support to something else, whether a right or the evidence of one. It is principally used to designate evidence adduced in aid or support of other evidence, which without it is imperfect. Brown.
  • ADMINISTER
    To discharge the duties of an office; to take charge of business; to manage affairs; to serve in the conduct of affairs, in the application of things to their uses; to settle and distribute the estate of a decedent. In physiology, and in criminal law, to administer means to cause More...
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