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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

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

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

Lat He has ad

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

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

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

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

In Scotch law. An aid

To give adminicu-iar evidence

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 lt is imperfect. Brown

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

A person who swore by laying his bauds ou the book

Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that ls, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in definite and fixed proportions

In old English law. Admeasurement. Reg. orig. 156, 157

In old Italian law. Persons chosen hy the consent of contending parties, to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman

In the law of insur-ance, the adjustment of a loss ls 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 […]

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

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

Additional Judges sometimes appointed in the English high court of delegates. See Shelf. Lun. 310

An ac

A swearing or binding upon oath

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

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

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

The giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree in a cause; also tbe judgment glven. The term ls prin

A summons taken out ln the chambers of a judge, aud afterwards taken into court to be argued by counsel

A putting off or post-lining of business or of a session until an-other tlme or place; the act of a court, leg-lslatlve body, public meetlng, or officer, by which the session or assembly is dissolved, either temporarily or finally, and the business ln hand dismissed from consideration, either deflnltely or for an interval. If the […]

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

In Canadian law. A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale. See 1 Low. Can. 241; 10 Low. Can. 325

To put off; defer; postpone. To postpone action of a convened court or body until another time specified, or indefl-nitely, the lutter being usually called to adjourn sine die. Bispbam v. Tucker, 2 N. J. Law, 253

L. Lat. It is adjourn-ed. A word with which the old reports very frequently conclude a case. 1 Ld. Raym. 602; 1 8how. 7; 1 Leon. 88

Lying near or close to; contiguous. The difference between adjacent and adjoining seems to be that the for-mer implies that the two objects are not widely separated, though they may not actually touch, while adjoining imports that they are so joined or united to each other that no third object Intervenes. People v. Keechler, 194 […]

An approach; a way; a public way. Co. Litt. 56a

In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage lnto a mine; tbe opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; a horizontal excavation ln and along’ a lode. Electro-Magnetic M. & D. Co. v. Van Auken, 9 Colo. 204, 11 Pac. 80 ; Gray v. Truby, 6 […]

Lost; strayed; a price or value set upon things stolen or lost, as a rec-ompense to the owner. Cowell

A waxy substance (chemically margarate of ammouium or ammonia-cal soap) formed by the decomposition of animal matter protected from the alr but subjected to moisture; in medical jurispru-dence, the substance into which a human cadaver is converted which has been buried for a long time in a saturated soil or has lain long in water

L. Fr. without day. A com-mon term in the Year Books, implying final dismissal from court

A term used in the laws of Holland for the application of property by an executor, wharton

In the civil law. To ap-ply; to employ; to exercise; to use. Adhi-bere diligentiam, to use care. Adhibcre vim, to employ force

In Scotch law. The name of a form of action by which the mutual obligation of marriage may be enforced by either party. Bell. It corresponds to the English action for the restitution of conjugal rights

In the civil law. The welding together of iron; a species of

In the civil law. To be pres-ent; the opposite of abesse. Calvin

Sufficient’; proportionate; equally efficient

Lat So, as. Adeo plene et in-tcgre, as fully and entirely. 10 Coke, 65

The revocation, recalling, or cancellation of a legacy, according to the apparent intention of the testator, implied by the law from acts done by him in his life, though such acts do not amount to an ex-press revocation of it. Kenaday v. Slnnott, 179 U. S. 606, 21 Sup. Ct 233, 45 L. Ed. 339; […]

Lat In the civil law. A revocation of a legacy; an ademption. Inst 2, 21, pr. where it was expressly transfer-red from one person to another. It was called translatio. Id. 2, 21,1; Dig. 34, 4

In Spanish law. A governor of a province; a president or presi-dent judge; a judge having jurisdiction over a kingdom, or over certain provinces only. So called from htiving authority over the judges of those places. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 4, 1. 1

To take away, recall, or revoke. To satisfy a legacy by some gift or substituted disposition, made by the testator, ln advance. Tolman v. Toliuau, 85 Me. 317, 27 Atl. 184. See Ademption

To present, bring forward, offer, introduce. Used particularly with refer-euce to evidence. Tuttle v. Story County, 56 Iowa, 316, 9 N. W. 292