Adjudication

The giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree in a cause; also the judgment given. The term is principally used in bankruptcy proceedings, the adjudication being the order which deelares the debtor to be a bankrupt. tions are voluntary, judicial, or administrative.

Duverger.

In Seotch law. A species of diligence, or process for transferring the estate of a debtor to acreditor, carried on as an ordinary action before the court of session. A species of judicial sale, redeemable by the debtor. 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 catled the “adjudger,” for payment or performance. Bell; Ersk. Inst. ¢.

2, tit. 12, §§ 89-55; Forb. Inst. pt. 3, b. 1, ec. 2, tit. 6.

ADJUDICATION CONTRA HARE-