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That age which fol-lows puberty aud precedes the age of majors ity.. It commences for males at 14, and for females at 12 years completed, and con-tinues till 21 years complete

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To accept, appropriate, choose, or select; to make that one’s own (property or act) which was not so originally

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In old English law. To annul;, to make void; to reduce to noth* ing; to treat as nothiug; to hold as or for nought

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In the civil law. The subscription of a name or signature to an in-strument. Cod. 4, 19, 5, 7

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The daughter of a great-great-granddaughter. Calvin

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Annulled, cancelled, mnde void. 28 Hen. VIII

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The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mort-main, in the feudal customs

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The son of a great-great-grandson. Calvin

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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

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In ecclesiastical law, this is the lightest form of punishment, con-slstlng in a reprimand and warning adinin-lstered 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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A writ of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered in quare impedit, addressed to the bishop or hls metropolitan, requiring him to admit and institute the clerk or presentee of the plaintiff. Reg. orig. 33a

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A writ for associating certain persons, as knights and other gentlemen of the county, to jus-tlces of assize on the circuit Reg. orig. 206

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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 Ad-mission

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In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold es-tate. 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 his ancestor’s death

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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, $ 1492; People v. Solomon, 5 Utah, 277, 15 Pac. 4; Shelby County v. Simmonds, 33 Iowa, 345

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In European lnw. An usher. Spelman

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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

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Ia evidence. A volun-tary acknowledgment, confession, or conces-sion of the existence of a fact or the truth of au allegation made by a party to the suit Roosevelt v. Smith, 17 Misc. Rep. 323, 40 N. Y. Supp. 381

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L. Lat Admiralty; the admiralty, or court of admiralty

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A court exercising jurls-diction over maritlme causes, both civil and criminal, and marine affairs, commerce and navigation, controversies arising out of acts done upon or relating to the*sea, and over questions of prize

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Lat He has ad

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In European law. An officer who presided over the admiralitas, or collegium ammiralitatis. Locc. de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 2, I 1

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Pertaining to administration. Particularly, having the char-acter of executive or ministerial action. In this sense, administrative functions or acts are distinguished from such as are judicial. People v. Austin, 20 App. Dlv. 1, 46 N. Y. Supp. 526

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A female who administers, or to whom letters of admlnlstra-tlon have been granted

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The management nnd settlement of the es-tate of an intestate, or of a testator who has

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