In English practice. A suit brought in chancery, by any one interested, for administration of a de-* cedent’s estate, when there is doubt as to its solvency. Stimson
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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 aud distribute the estate of a decedent
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lu public law. The administration of government means the practical management and direction of the executive department, or of the public machinery or functions, or of the operations of the various organs of the sovereign. The term “administration” is also conventionally applied to the whole class of public function-aries, or those in charge of the management of the executive department. People v. Sals-bury, 134 Mich. 537, 96 N. W. 936
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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
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Auxiliary to. “The murder would be adminicular to the rob
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In old English law. Admeasurement. Reg. orig. 156, 157
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In old Italian law. Persons chosen hy the consent of contending parties, to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman
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A person who swore by laying his bauds ou the book
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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
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In welsh law. A proprie-tor who, for some cause, entered the serv-ice of another proprietor, aud left him after the expiration of a year and a day. He was liable to the payment of 30 pence to his patron. wharton
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To bring to proper relations; to settle; to determine and apportion an uinount due. Flaherty v. Insurance Co., 20 App. Div. 275, 46 N. Y. Supp. 934; Miller v. Insurance Co., 113 Iowa, 211, 84 N. W. 1049; washington County v. St. Louis, etc., IL Co., 58 Mo. 376
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In the law of insur-ance, the adjustment of a loss is the ascer-tninment of Its amount and the ratable distribution of it among those liable to pay it; the settling and ascertaining the amount of the Indemnity which the assured, after all allowances and deductions made, is entitled to receive under the policy, and fixing the proportion which each underwriter is liable to pay. Marsh. Ins. (4th Ed.) 499; 2 PhlL
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In the civil law. Adjunc-tion; a species of accessio, whereby two things belonging to different proprietors are brought into firm connection with each other; such as interweaving, (intcrtextura;) weld-ing together, (adfcrruminatio 😉 soldering together, (applumbatura;) painting, (pictura;) writing, (scriptura 😉 building, (iiucdiflcatio 😉 sowing, (satio;) aud planting, (plantatio.) Inst. 2, 1, 26-34; Dig. 6, 1, 23; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 276. See Accessio
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Additional Judges sometimes appointed in the English high court of delegates. See Shelf. Lun. 310
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In the clvll law. An adjudication. The judgment of the court that the subject-matter Ib the property of one of the litigants; confirmation of title by judgment Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 204
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The giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree in a cause; also tbe judgment glven. The term is prin
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To settle In the exercise of judicial authority. To determine finally. Synonymous with adjudge iu its strictest sense. United States v. Irwin, 127 U. S. 125, 8 Sup. CL 1033, 32 L. Ed. 99; Street v. Benner, 20 Fla. 700; Sans v. New York, 31 Mlsc. Rep. 559, 64 N. Y. Supp. 681
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In French and clvll law. The purchaser at a Judicial sale. Breut v. New orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793
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To pass upon judicially; to decide, settle, or decree; to sentence or condemn. webb v. Bidwell, 15 Minn. 479, (Gil. 394;) western Assur. Co. v. Klein, 48 Neb. 904, 67 N. W. 873; Blaufus v. People, 69 N. Y. 107, 25 Am. Rep. 148. Compare Edwards v. Helllngs, 99 Cal. 214, 33 Pac. 799
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In Canadian law. A purchaser at a sheriff's sale. See 1 Low. Can. 241; 10 Low. Can. 325
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