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ADSCENDENTES. In the civil law. Ascendants. Dig. 23, 2, 68; Cod. 5, 5. 6. ADSCRIPTI GLEBJE. Slaves who served the master of the soil, who were an nexed to the land, and passed with it when it was conveyed. Calvin. In Scotland, as late as the reign of George III., laborers in collieries and salt works were bound to the coal-pit or salt work in which they were engaged, in a manner similar to that of the adscnpti of the Romans. Bell. ADSCRIPTUS. In the civil law. Add ed, annexed, or bound by or in writing; en rolled, registered; united, joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Servus colonm adscrip tus, a slave annexed to an estate as a culti vator. Dig. 19, 2, 54, 2. Fundus adscrip tus, an estate bound to, or burdened with a duty. Cod. 11, 2, 3. ADSESSORES. Side judges. Assist ants or advisers of the regular magistrates, or appointed as their substitutes in certain cases. Calvin. In Roman law. An accessory party to a promise, who received the same promise as his principal did, and could equally receive and exact payment; or he only stipulated for a part of that for which the principal stipulated, and then his rights were coextensive with the amount of his own stipulation. Sandars, Just. Inst. (5th Ed.) 348. ADULT. In the civil law. A male infant who has attained the age of four teen; a female infant who has attained the age of twelve. Dom. Liv. Prel. tit 2, § 2, n. 8. In the common law. One who has at tained the legal age of majority, generally 21 years, though in some states women are legally "adults" at 18. Schenault v. State, 10 Tex. App. 410; George v. State, 11 Tex. App. 95; Wilson v. Lawrence, 70 Ark. 545, 69 S. W. 570. La t ADSTIPUIiATOR. ADULTERA. An adulteress; a woman guilty of adultery. Dig. 48, 5, 4, pr.; Id. 48, 5, 15, 8. ADULTERATION. The act of corrupt ing or debasing. The term is generally ap plied to the act of mixing up with food or drink intended to be sold other matters of an inferior quality, and usually of a more or less deleterious quality. Grosvenor v. Duffy, 121 Mich. 220, 80 N. W. 19; Com. v. Hufnal, 185 Pa. 376, 39 Atl. 1052; People T. West, 44 Hun (N. Y.) 162. In the civil law. ADULTER. Lat. One who corrupts; one who seduces another man's wife. Adul ter solidorum. counterfeiter. A corruptor of metals; a Calvin.

law. A forger; a counterfeiter. Adultera tores monetae, counterfeiters of money. Dig. 48, 19, 16, 9. ADULTERINE. Begotten in an adulter ous intercourse. In the Roman and canon law, adulterine bastards were distinguished from such as were the issue of two unmar ried persons, and the former were treated with more severity, not being allowed the status of natural children, and being in eligible to holy orders. ADULTERINE GUILDS. Traders act ing as a corporation without a charter, and paying a fine annually for permission to ex ercise their usurped privileges. Smith, Wealth Nat b. 1, c. 10. A fine anciently im posed as a punishment for the commission of adultery. ADULTEROUS BASTARDY. Adul terous bastards are those produced by an unlawful connection between two persons, who, at the time when the child was con ceived, were, either of them or both, con nected by marriage with some other person. Civil Code La. art 182. Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a person other than the offender's husband or wife. Civil Code Cal. § 93; 1 Bish. Mar. & Div. § 703; Cook v. State, 11 Ga. 53, 5*5 Am. Dec. 410; State v. Mahan, 81 Iowa, 121, 46 N. W. 855; Banks v. State, 96 Ala. 78, 11 South. 404. Adultery is the unlawful voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with one of the opposite sex, and when the crime is com mitted between parties, only one of whom is married, both are guilty of adultery. Pen. Code Dak. § 333. It is to be observed, however, that in some of the states it is held that this crime is com mitted only when the woman is married to a third person, and the unlawful commerce of a married man with an unmarried woman is not of the grade of adultery. In some juris dictions, also, a distinction is made between double and single adultery, the former being committed where both parties are married to other persons, the latter where one only is so married. State v. Fellows, 50 Wis. 65, 6 N. W. 239; State v. Searle, 56 Vt. 516; State v. Lash, 16 N. J. Law, 380, 32 Am. Dec. 397; Hood v. State, 56 Ind. 263, 26 Am. Rep. 21; State v. Connoway, Tapp. (Ohio) 90; State v. Weatherby, 43 Me. 258, 69 Am. Dec. 59; Hun ter v. U. S., 1 Pin. (Wis.) 91, 39 Am. Dec. 277. To pay money or render other value before it is due; or to furnish capital in aid of a projected enterprise, in expectation of return from it Money or property given by a father to his child or presump tive heir, or expended by the former for the ADULTERIUM. ADULTERY. ADVANCE, v. ADVANCEMENT.