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  • ADMISSIBLE
    Proper to be received. As applied to evidence, the term means that it is of such a character that the court or judge is bound to receive it; that is, allow it to be introduced.
  • ADMISSION
    In evidence. A voluntary acknowledgment confession, or concession of the existence of a fact or the truth of an allegation made by a party to the suit. Roosevelt v. Smith, 17 Misc. Rep. 323, 40 N. Y. 8upp. 381. In pleading. The concession or acknowledgment by one party of the More...
  • ADMISSION TO BAIL
    The order of a competent court or magistrate that a person accused of crime be discharged from actual custody upon the taking of bail. Comp. Laws Nev. 1900, § 4460; Ann. Codes & St Or. 1901, s 1492; People v. Solomon, 5 Utah, 277, 15 Pac. 4; Shelby County v. More...
  • ADMISSIONALIS
    In European law. An usher. Spelman.
  • ADMIT
    To allow, receive, or take; to suffer one to enter; to give possession; to license. Gregory v. United States,. 17 Blatchf. 325, 10 Fed. Cas. 1195. See ADMISSION.
  • ADMITTANCE
    In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. It is of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant by the lord; where the land has escheated or reverted to him. (2) Upon surrender by the former tenant (3) Upon descent, where the heir Is tenant on More...
  • ADMITTENDO CLERICO
    A writ of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered in quare impedit, addressed to the bishop or his metropolitan, requiring him to admit and institute the clerk or presentee of the plaintiff. Reg. Orig. 33a.
  • ADMITTENDO IN SOCIUM
    A writ for associating certain persons, as knights and other gentlemen of the county, to justices of assize on the circuit. Reg. Orig. 206.
  • ADMONITIO TRINA
    A triple or threefold warning, given, in old times, to a prisoner standing mute, before he was subjected to the peine forte et dure. 4 Bl. Comm. 325; 4 Steph. Comm. 391.
  • ADMONITION
    In ecclesiastical law, this is the lightest form of punishment, consisting in a reprimand and warning administered by the judge to the defendant. If the latter does not obey the admonition, he may be more severely punished, as by suspension, etc.
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