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In English practice. A suit brought in chancery, by any one interested, for administration of a de-* cedent’s estate, when there is […]

To discharge the duties of an office; to take charge of business; to manage affairs; to serve in the conduct of affairs, […]

lu public law. The administration of government means the practical management and direction of the executive department, or of the public machinery […]

To give adminicu-iar evidence Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. An adminicle; a prop or support; an accessory thing. An aid or support to something else, whether a right or the […]

In Scotch law. An aid Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Auxiliary to. “The murder would be adminicular to the rob Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. Admeasurement. Reg. orig. 156, 157 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Italian law. Persons chosen hy the consent of contending parties, to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman Source: Black’s […]

A person who swore by laying his bauds ou the book Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in […]

In welsh law. A proprie-tor who, for some cause, entered the serv-ice of another proprietor, aud left him after the expiration of […]

To purge oue’s self of a crime by oath Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To bring to proper relations; to settle; to determine and apportion an uinount due. Flaherty v. Insurance Co., 20 App. Div. 275, […]

In the law of insur-ance, the adjustment of a loss is the ascer-tninment of Its amount and the ratable distribution of it […]

An ac Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A swearing or binding upon oath Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. Adjunc-tion; a species of accessio, whereby two things belonging to different proprietors are brought into firm connection with […]

Additional Judges sometimes appointed in the English high court of delegates. See Shelf. Lun. 310 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the clvll law. An adjudication. The judgment of the court that the subject-matter Ib the property of one of the litigants; […]

The giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree in a cause; also tbe judgment glven. The term is prin Source: Black’s Law […]

To settle In the exercise of judicial authority. To determine finally. Synonymous with adjudge iu its strictest sense. United States v. Irwin, […]

In French and clvll law. The purchaser at a Judicial sale. Breut v. New orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793 […]

To pass upon judicially; to decide, settle, or decree; to sentence or condemn. webb v. Bidwell, 15 Minn. 479, (Gil. 394;) western […]

In Canadian law. A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale. See 1 Low. Can. 241; 10 Low. Can. 325 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]