Adjudication

In Scotch law. A species of diligence, or process for transferring the estate of a debtor to a creditor, carried on as an ordinary action before the court of session. Ersk. Inst. b. 2, tit. 12, §§ 39 — 66. A species of judicial sale, redeemable by the debtor. Id. §§ 42 — bb. A decreet of the lords of session, adjudging and appropriating a person's lands, hereditaments, or any heritable right to belong to his creditor, who is called the adjudger, for payment or performance. Forbes' Inst. part 3, b. 1, ch. 2, tit. 6.