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ADMORTIZATION

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ADMORTIZATION. The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mort main, in the feudal customs. ADM'R. This abbreviation will be Ju dicially presumed to mean "administrator." Moseley v. Mastin, 37 Ala. 216, 221. ADNEPOS. The son of a great-great grandson. Calvin. ADNEPTIS. The daughter of a great great-granddaughter. Calvin. ADNICHILED. Annulled, cancelled, made void. 28 Hen. VIII. ADNIHILABE. In old English law. To annul; to make void; to reduce to noth ing; 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, sign ed with his own hand, or sign-manual. Cod. 1, 19, 1. "In the imperial law, casual homi cide was excused by the indulgence of the emperor, signed with his own sign-manual, annotatione principis." 4 Bl. Comm. 187. ADOLESCENCE. That age which fol lows puberty and precedes the age of major ity. It commences for males at 14, and for females at 12 years completed, and con tinues till 21 years complete. ADOPT. To accept, appropriate, choose, or select; to make that one's own (property or act) which was not so originally. To adopt a route for the transportation of the mail means to take the steps necessary to cause the mail to be transported over that route. Rhodes v. U. S., Dev. Ct. CI. 47. To adopt a contract is to accept it as binding, notwith standing some defect which entitles the party to repudiate it. Thus, when a person affirms a voidable contract, or ratifies a contract made by his agent beyond his authority, he is said to adopt it. Sweet. To accept, consent to, and put into effec tive operation; as in the case of a consti tution, constitutional amendment, ordinance, or by-law. Real v. People, 42 N. Y. 282; People v. Norton, 59 Barb. (N. Y.) 191. To take into one's family the child of an other and give him or her the rights, priv ileges, and duties of a child and heir. State v. Thompson, 13 La. Ann. 515; Abney v. De Loach, 84 Ala. 393, 4 South. 757; In re Ses sions' Estate, 70 Mich. 297, 38 N. W. 249, 14 Am. St. Rep. 500; Smith v. Allen, 32 App. Div. 374, 53 N. Y. Supp. 114. Adoption of children was a thing unknown to the common law, but was a familiar practice under the Roman law and in those countries where the civil law prevails, as France and Spain. Modern statutes authorizing adoption are taken from the civil law, and to that extent modify the rules of the common law as to the succession of property. Butterfield v. Sawyer, 187 111. 598, 58 N. E. 602, 52 L. R. A. 75, 79 Am. St. Rep. 246; Vidal v. Commagere, 13 La.

Ann. 516; Eckford v. Knox, 67 Tex. 200, 2 S. W. 372. —Adoption and legitimation. Adoption, properly speaking, refers only to persons who are strangers in blood, and is not synony mous with "legitimation," which refers to per sons of the same blood. Where one acknowl edges his illegitimate child and takes it into his family and treats it as if it were legitimate, it is not properly an "adoption" but a "legiti mation." Blythe v. Ayres, 96 Cal. 532, 31 Pac 915, 19 L. R. A. 40. To accept an alien as a citizen or mem ber of a community or state and invest him with corresponding rights and privileges, ei ther (in general and untechnical parlance) by naturalisation, or by an act equivalent to naturalization, as where a white man is "adopted" by an Indian tribe. Hampton v. Mays, 4 Ind. T. 503, 69 S. W. 1115. ADOPTION. The act of one who takes another's child into his own family, treating him as his own, and giving him all the rights and duties of his own child. A ju ridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, of paternity and filiation. 6 Demol. § 1. ADOPTIVE ACT. An act of legislation which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner pre scribed therein, by the inhabitants of that area. ADOPTIVUS. Lat Adoptive. Applied both to the parent adopting, and the child adopted. Inst 2, 13, 4; Id. 3, 1, 10-14. ADPROMISSOR. In the civil and Scotch law. A guarantor, surety, or caution er; a peculiar species of fidejussor; one who adds his own promise to the promise given by the principal debtor, whence the name. ADQUIETO. Payment Blount ADRECTARE. To set right, satisfy, or make amends. ADRHAMIRE. In old European law. To undertake, declare, or promise solemnly; to pledge; to pledge one's self to make oath. Spelman. ADRIFT. Sea-weed, between high and low water-mark, which has not been deposit ed on the shore, and which during flood-tide is moved by each rising and receding wave, is adrift, although the bottom of the mass may touch the beach. Anthony v. Gifford, 2 Allen (Mass.) 549. that is, if a male, under fourteen years of age; if a female, under twelve. Dig. 1, 7, 17, 1. ADS. An abbreviation for ad sectam, which means "at the suit of." Bowen v. Sewing Mach. Co., 86 111. 11. ADROGATION. In the civil law. The adoption of one who was impubes;