Adjust — Law Dictionary

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To put in order; to determine an amount due. See State v. Staub, 61 Conn. 553, 23 Atl. 924; State v. Moore, 40 Neb. 854, 59 N. W. 755, 25 L. R. A. 774. Accounts are adjusted when they are settled and a balance struck; Townes v. Birchett, 12 Leigh (Va.) 173, 201. It is sometimes used in the sense of pay; see Lynch v. Nugent, SO la. 422, 46 N. W. 61.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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., In Co.., 58 Mo. 376.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

To bring to proper relutions; to settle; to determine and apportion an amount due,

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

!" To determine what is due; to settle; to ascertain: as, to adjust a claim, a demand, a right. Adjuster. He who determines the amount of a claim; as, a claim against an insurance company. Adjustment. Settlement of the relative rights of parties, of a demand or cross-demands of any nature; in particular, the settlement of the claim of an insured party after a loss.* Unadjusted. Applied to a demand — that the amount is uncertain, not agreed upon.5