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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[Lat. admissio, from admittere, from ad, to, and mittere, to send.] A taking, or letting m; a permission to exercise certain rights or privileges, to fill an office, <&c.; as the admission of an attorney or counsellor to practice; the admission of an individual as a member of a corporation; the admission of a clerk to a benefice, <Sz;c. An acknowledgment, acquiescence, consent or allowance; as the admission of a fact in evidence; the admission of service of papers in practice.