administer

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Definitions from Case Law

United States Supreme Court

the direct application of a controlled substance to the body of a patient.

Defined by the Supreme Court in United States v. W Moore, 423 U.S. 122 (1975).

United States Code

21 U.S.C. § 802 — as used in this subchapter (9 versions over time)

The term "administer" refers to the direct application of a controlled substance to the body of a patient or research subject by—

(A) a practitioner (or, in his presence, by his authorized agent), or

(B) the patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of the practitioner,

whether such application be by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To give, to direct or cause to be taken. Gilchrist v. Comfort, 34 N. Y. 239; Brinson v. State, 89 Ala. 105, 8 South. 527.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To discharge the duties of an office; to take charge of business; to manage affairs; to serve in the conduct of affairs, in the application of things to their uses; to settle and distribute the estate of a decedent. In physiology, and in criminal law, to administer means to cause or procure a person to take some drug or other substance into his or her system; to direct and cause a medicine, poison, or drug to be taken into the system. State v. Jones, 4 Pennewill (Del.) 109, 53 Atl. 861; McCaughey v. State, 156 Ind. 41, 59 N. E. 169; La Beau v. People, 34 N. Y. 223; Sumpter v. Sinte, 11 Fla. 247; Robbins v. State, 8 Ohio St. 131. Neither fraud nor deception is a necessary ingredient in the act of administering poison. To force poison into the stomach of another; to compel another by threats of violence to swallow poison; to furnish poison to another for the purpose and with the intention that the person to whom it is delivered shall commit suicide therewith, and which poison is accordingly taken by the suicide for that purpose; or to be present at the taking of poison by a suicide, participating m the taking thereof, by assistance, persuasion, or otherwise,—each and all of these are forms and modes of "administering" poison. Blackburn v. State, 23 Ohio St. 146,

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

To discharge the duties of an oflice; to take charge of business; to manage affairs; to serve in the conduct of affairs, in the application of things to their uses; to settle and distribute the estate of a decedent. In physiology, and in criminal law, to administer means to cause or procure a person to take some drug or other substance into his or her system; to direct and cause a medicine, poison, or drug to be taken into the system. 8 Ohio St. 131; 34 N. Y. 2238; 11 Pla. 247; 1 Moody, 114. Neither fraud nor deception isa necessary ingredient in the act of administering poison. ‘fo force poison into the stomach of another; to compel anthe intention that the person to whom it Is dellyered shall commit suicide therewith, and which poison is accordingly taken by the suicide for that purpose; or te be present at the taking of poison by a suicide, participating in the taking thereof, by assistance, persuasion, or otherwise,—each and all of these are forms and modes of “administering” poison. 23 Ohio St. 146.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

[from Lsit, administrare, q, V.J To manage; to take charse and dispose of the personal property of an intestate according to law.* Used in this sense in the statute 31 £dw. III., stat. 2, c. 11. Coweil. 2 Jieeves* Hist, JSng. Law, 387. Applied in the civil law to the management of the estate of a minor. See Administrare,