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  • ADOPTIVE ACT
    An act of legislation which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner prescribed therein, by the inhabitants of that area.
  • ADOPTIVUS
    Lat. Adoptive. Applied both to the parent adopting, and the child adopted. Inst. 2, 13, 4; Id. 3, 1, 10-14.
  • ADPROMISSOR
    In the civil and Scotch law. A guarantor, surety, or cautioner; a peculiar species of fidejussor; one who adds his own promise to the promise given by the principal debtor, whence the name.
  • ADQUIETO
    Payment. Blount.
  • ADRECTARE
    To set right, satisfy, or make amends.
  • ADRHAMIRE
    In old European law; To undertake, declare, or promise solemnly; to pledge; to pledge one's self to make oath. Spelman.
  • ADRIFT
    Sea-weed, between high and low water-mnrk, which has not been deposited on the shore, and which during flood-tide is moved by each rising and receding wave, is adrift, although the bottom of the mass may touch the beach. Anthony v. Gilford, 2 Allen (Mass.) 549.
  • ADROGATION
    In the civil law. The adoption of one who was impubes; that is, if a male, under fourteen years of age; if a female, under twelve. Dig. 1, 7, 17, 1.
  • ADS.
    An abbreviation for ad sectam, which means "at the suit of." Bowen v. Sewing Mach. Co., 86 Ill. 11.
  • ADSCENDENTES
    Lat. In the civil law. Ascendants, Dig. 23, 2, 68; Cod. 5, 5, 6.
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