Adjudicatio

Lat. [from adjudicare, q. v.] In the civil law. An adjudication; an assignment b^ judgment; the adjudging of the ownership of a thing, by a court. One of the legal modes of obtaining property, viz. by the decision of a judge, which takes place in the three actions for partition, viz. familim kerciscundoe, communi dividundo, and finium regundorum, (qq. V.) In these actions, the judge has the right to adjudge to one or the other co-heir or part-owner, the exclusive proprietorship of a thing hitherto held m common, and his judgment transfers, ipso jure, the property in the thing adjudged.

1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 286, § 271.

Statim eju^ fit cui adjudicaium ' est; it immediately becomes his to whom it is adjudged.

Inst. 4. 17. 7.