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  • ADSCENDENTES
    Lat. In the civil law. Ascendants, Dig. 23, 2, 68; Cod. 5, 5, 6.
  • ADSCRIPTI GLEBAE
    Slaves who served the master of the soil, who were annexed to the land, and passed with it when it was conveyed. Calvin. In Scotland, as late as the reign of George III., laborers in collieries and salt works were bound to the coal-pit or salt work in which they More...
  • ADSCRIPTUS
    In the civil law. Added, annexed, or bound by or in writing; enrolled, registered; united, joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Servus colonae adscriptus, a slave annexed to an estate as a cultivator. Dig. 19, 2, 54, 2. Fundus adscriptus, an estate bound, to, or burdened with a duty. Cod. 11, More...
  • ADSESSORES
    Side judges. Assistants or advisers of the regular magistrates, or appointed as their substitutes in certain cases. Calvin.
  • ADSTIPULATOR
    In Roman law. An accessory party to a promise, who received the same promise as his principal did, and could equally receive and exact payment; or he only stipulated for a part of that for which the principal stipulated, and then his rights were coextensive with the amount of his More...
  • ADULT
    In the civil law. A male infant who has attained the age of fourteen ; a female infant who has attained the age of twelve. Dom. Llv. Prel. tit 2, § 2, n. 8. In the common law. One who has attained the legal age of majority, generally 21 years, More...
  • ADULTER
    Lat. One who corrupts; one who seduces another man's wife. Adulter solidorum. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter. Calvin.
  • ADULTERA
    In the civil law. An adulteress; a woman guilty of adultery. Dig. 48, 5, 4, pr.; Id. 48, 5, 15, 8.
  • ADULTERATION
    The act of corrupting or debasing. The term is generally applied to the act of mixing up with food or drink intended to be sold other matters of an inferior quality, and usually of a more or less deleterious quality. Grosvenor v. DulTy, 121 Mich. 220, 80 N. W. 19; More...
  • ADULTERATOR
    Lat. In the civil law. A forger; a counterfeiter. Adulteratores monetae, counterfeiters of money. Dig. 48, 19, 16, 9.
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