KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

ADJUDICATION

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cipally used in bankruptcy proceedings, the adjudication being the order which declares the debtor to be a bankrupt In French law. A sale made at public auction and upon competition^ Adjudica tions are voluntary, judicial, or administra tive. Duverger. In Scotch law. A species of diligence, or process for transferring the estate of a debt or to a creditor, carried on as an ordinary action before the court of session. A species of judicial sale, redeemable by the debtor. A decreet of the lords of session, adjudging and appropriating a person's lands, heredita ments, or any heritable right to belong to his creditor, who is called the "adjudger," for payment or performance. Bell; Ersk. Inst. c 2, tit. 12, §§ 39-55; Forb. Inst pt 3, b. 1, c 2, tit 6. —Adjudication contra hsereditatem ja centent. When a debtor's heir apparent re nounces the succession, any creditor may obtain a decree eognitwnu causa, the purpose of which is that the amount of the debt may be ascertainr ed so that the real estate may be adjudged.— Adjudication in bankruptcy. See BANK BUPTCY.— Adjudication in implement. An action by a grantee against his grantor to com pel him to complete the title. ADJUNCTIO. 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, (intertexturaj) weld ing together, (adferruminatio;) soldering to gether, (applumbaturaj) painting, (ptctura;) writing, (scnptura;) building, (mcedificatio ;) sowing, (satto;) and planting, (plantatio.) Inst. 2, 1, 26-34; Dig. 6, 1, 23; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 276. See ACCESSIO. ADJUNCTS. Additional judges some times appointed in the English high court of delegates. See Shelf. Lun. 310. ADJUNCTUM ACCESSORIUM. An ac cessory or appurtenance. ADJURATION. A swearing or binding upon oath. ADJUST. To bring to proper relations; to settle; to determine and apportion an amount 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., R, Co., 58 Mo. 376. ADJUSTMENT. In the law of Insur ance, the adjustment of a loss is the ascer tainment of its amount and the ratable dis tribution 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 PhiL

Ins. §§ 1814, 1815; New York v. Insurance Co., 39 N. Y. 45, 100 Am. Dec. 400; Whipple v. Insurance Co., 11 R. I. 139. Adjuvari quippe nos, non decipi, bene flcio oportet. We ought to be favored, not injured, by that which is intended for our benefit (The species of bailment called "loan" must be to the advantage of the bor rower, not to his detriment.) Story, Bailm. { 275. See 8 El. & BL 1051. ADLAMWR. In Welsh law. A proprie tor who, for some cause, entered the serv ice of another proprietor, and left him after the expiration of a year and a day. He was liable to the payment of 30 pence to his pa tron. Wharton. ADLEGIARE. To purge one's self of a crime by oath. ADMANUENSIS. A person who swore by laying his hands on the book. ADMEASUREMENT. Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or ap portionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in In practice. A remedy which lay for the heir on reaching his majority to rectify an assignment of dower made during his minority, by which the dower ess had received more than she was legally en titled to. 2 Bl. Comm. 136; Gilb. Uses, 379. In some of the states the statutory proceeding enabling a widow to compel the assignment of dower is called "admeasurement of dower."— Admeasurement of pasture. In English law. A writ which lies between those that have common of pasture appendant, or by vicinage, in cases where any one or more of them' sur charges the common with more cattle than they ought. Bract, fol. 229a; 1 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 318, § 358.— Admeasurement, writ of. It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases Ad measurement of dower, and admeasurement of pasture. Termes de la Ley. ADMENSURATIO. In old English law. Admeasurement. Reg. Orig. 156, 157. ADMEZATORES. In old Italian law. Persons chosen by the consent of contending parties, to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman. ADMINICLE. In Scotch law. An aid or support to something else. A collateral deed or writing, referring to another which has been lost, and which it is in general nec essary to produce before the tenor of the lost deed can be proved by parol evidence. Ersk. Inst b. 4, tit 1, § 55. Used as an English word in the statute of 1 Edw. IV. c. 1, in the sense of aid, or sup port In the civil law. Imperfect proof. Merl. Repert. See AMIINICULUM. ADMINICULAR. Auxiliary to. "The murder would be adminicular to the rob- definite and fixed proportions. —Admeasurement of dower.