Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ADMIRALTY

ADOLESCENCE

the lord high admiral, but in practice the func tions of the great office are discharged by sev eral commissioners, of whom one is the chief, and is called the "First Lord." He is assist ed by other lords and by various secretaries. Also, the court of the admiral. The building where the lords of the ad miralty transact business. In American law. A tribunal exercising jurisdiction overall maritime contracts, torts, injuries, or offenses. 2 Pars. Mar. Law, 508. ADMISSIBLE. 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. ADMISSIBILITT. An objection to the admissibility of evidence in any cause can only be properly founded on the hypothesis that such testimony violates the law of evi dence in this: that the law prohibits the proof of the particular fact in the manner proposed, or because of its irrelevancy to the subject matter of the inquiry. 7 Md. 87. ADMISSION. In evidence. A volun tary acknowledgment, confession, or conces sion of the existence of a fact or the truth of an allegation made by a party to the suit. In pleading. The concession or acknowl edgment by one party of the truth of some matter alleged by the opposite party, made in a pleading, the effect of which is to narrow the area of facts or allegations requiring to be proved by evidence. In practice. The formal act of a court, by which attorneys or counsellors are recog nized as officers of the court and are licensed to practice before it. In corporations. The act of a corpora tion or company by which an individual ac quires the rights of a member of such corpo ration or company. In English, ecclesiastical law. The act of the bishop, who, on approval of the clerk presented by the patron, after examination, declares him fit to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented, by the words " admitto te habilem, " I admit thee able. Co. Litt. 344a; 4 Coke, 79; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 138, § 123. ADMISSIONALIS. In European law. An usher. Spelman. ADMIT. To allow, receive, or take; to •offer one to enter; to give possession; to li cense. See ADMISSION.

ADMITTANCE. In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. It is of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant by the lord, where the land has es cheated or reverted to him. (2) Upon sur render by the former tenant. (3) Upon de scent, where the heir is tenant on his ances tor's death. ADMITTENDO CLERICO. A writ of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered in quare impedit, addressed to the bishop or his metropolitan, requiring him to admit and institute the clerk or presentee of the plaintiff. Reg. Orig. 33a. ADMITTENDO IN SOCITJM. A writ for associating certain persons, as knights and other gentlemen of the county, to justices of assize on the circuit. Reg. Orig. 206. ADMONITIO TBINA. A triple or threefold warning, given, in old times, to a prisoner standing mute, before he was sub jected to the peineforte et dure. 4 Bl. Comm. 325; 4 Steph. Comm. 391. ADMONITION. In ecclesiastical law, this is the lightest form of punishment, con sisting in a reprimand and warning adminis tered by the judge to the defendant. If the latter does not obey the admonition, he may be more severely punished, as by suspension, etc. ADMORTIZATION. The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mortmain, in the feudal customs. ADNEFOS. The son of a great-great grandson. Calvin. ADNEFTIS. The daughter of a great great-granddaughter, Calvin. ADNICHILED. Annulled, cancelled, made void. 28 Hen. VIII. ADNIHILARE. In old English law. To annul; to make void; to reduce to nothing; to treat as nothing; to hold as or for nought. ADNOTATIO. In the civil law. The subscription of a name or signature to an in strument. Cod. 4, 19, 5, 7. A rescript of the prince or emperor, signed with his own hand, or sign-manual. Cod. 1, 19,1. "In the imperial law, casual homicide was excused by the indulgence of the em peror, signed with his own sign-manual, an notatione principis." 4 Bl. Comm. 187. ADOLESCENCE. That age which fol lows puberty and precedes the age of major

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