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A remedy which lay for the heir, on reaching his majority, to rectify an assignment of dower made during his minority, by which the doweress had received more than she was legally

A remedy which lay in certain cases for surcharge of common of pasture. It lay where a common of pasture appurtenant or in gross was certain as to number; or where one had common a

It lay agninst persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases Admeasurement of dower, and admeasurement of pasture. Termes de 1a Ley.

To the middle thread of the stream.

To the middle thread of the way.

To the middle thread of the way.

A writ directing a coroner to hold a second or further inquest

ameusnratio, I. I. Admeasurement Admensnratio nihil aliud est qnam reductia admensaram: admeasurement is nothing more than reducing to measure.

Lat. [from ad, to, and mensura, measure.] To admeasure. Breve de communi pastura admensuranda; a writ for admeasuring common of pasture. Reg. Orig. 157. See Amensurare.

In old English law. Admeasurement. Reg. Orig. 156, 157.

amensnrare, 1. 1. To admeasure.

(from Ital. mezzatura, middle). In old Italian law. Persons chosen by the consent of contending parties to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman.

In Scotch Law. Any writing or deed introduced for the purpose of proof of the tenor of a lost deed to which it refers. Ersk. Inst. lib. 4, tit. 1, § 55; Stair, Inst. lib. 4, tit. 3

Z. In civil and old English law. Aid or support; that which belongs to a thing as accessory; that which is necessary to its complete use or enjoyment; whatever appertains to judici

Auxiliary.

In ecclesiastical law. Evidence brought in to explain and complete other evidence. 2 Lee, Ecc. 595.

To give adminicular evidence.

An officer In the Romish church, who administered to the wants of widows, orphans, and afflicted persons. Spelman. ADMINICULUM (Lat.) In the civil and old English law. Aid or suppo

Lat An adminicle; a prop or support; an accessory thing. An aid or support to something else, whether a right or the evidence of one. It is principally used to designate evidence a

To wait upon, serve; to dispose of, administer. Plene administravit. He has fully administered. Plene administravit prseter. He has fully administered except —. The emphatic words

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

Voluntarily and intentionally although mistakenly administered. See 31 L. R. A. 686.

the term “administering agency” means the Agency for International Development;

The term "administering authority" means the administering authority described in section 1677(1) of this title. / The term “administering authority” has the meaning give

the term “administering body” means the entity provided for in section 2430g(c) of this title; / The term “administering body” means the entity provided for in section 2431g(c) of

“administering office” means the lowest unit of an agency responsible for managing a domestic assistance program.

“administering organization” means the recognized, voluntary, private sector, consensus standards body with specific experience in developing model residential building codes and s

An offence of an aggravated character, punishable under the various statutes defining the offence. The stat 9 G. IV. c. 31, s. 11, enacts "that if any person unlawfully and malicio

The term “administering Secretaries” means the Secretaries of executive departments specified in section 1073 of this title as having responsibility for administering this chapter.

The term “administering Secretary” or “administering Secretaries” means the following: (A) The Secretary of Defense, with respect to the armed forces (including the Coast Guard whe

To administer; to take charge of.

I. In the civil law. To manage or conduct; to take or have charge of; to administer; to govern; to have or conduct the government; to execute an ofl Bca

I. In old English law. Management conduct, disposal or charge of property or of affairs, as management by an administrator, an attorney, a guardian; power of disposal. In fhe civil

the term “Administration” means the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; / The term "Administration" means the Transportation Security Administration. / The ter

yovern- Letters of Administration. ment, is the management of the ADMIRAL, officer, in some affairs of the government; this countries is the commander in chief word is also applied

Administration for temporary preservation of an estate.

The grant of a temporary administration, as during the minority of an executor, is ad usum et commodum executoris. . . . The appointment of an administrator, during the absence of

the term "Administration for Community Living" means the Administration for Community Living of the Department of Health and Human Services;

The term “Administration human space flight vehicle” means a space vehicle, as defined in section 20138(a) of this title , that— (A) is intended to transport one or more persons; (

The management and settlement of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator who has no executor, performed under the supervision of a court, by a person duly qualified and legall

The theory of our system is that the conclusions to be reached in a case will be induced only by evidence and argument in open court, and not by any outside influence, whether of p

These administrations were independent of each other; the respective administrators represented Meek, the deceased intestate, by an authority coextensive only with the State where

In English practice. A suit usually by a creditor for the administration of the insolvent estate of a decedent.

state and local sources in Category 1, see 528 F. 3d, at 303, it becomes even harder to see why the term would not do the same in Category 2.

state and local sources in Category 1, see 528 F. 3d, at 303, it becomes even harder to see why the term would not do the same in Category 2.

The term “administrative access” means the unrestricted use of land and interests in land for ingress and egress by an agency of the United States (including a permittee, contracto

the order of dismissal is not a judgment. It was an administrative act. And, unlike such administrative acts as a patent or the approval of a list of lands pursuant to a duty impos

“administrative agency” means an authority as defined by section 551(1) of this title; and

When the Board exercises the discretion given to it by Congress, it must 'disclose the basis of its order' and 'give clear indication that it has exercised the discretion with whic

The term “administrative assessment” means the fee established pursuant to subsection (d)(7)(D).

The decision in 1919 was not a judgment pronounced in a judicial proceeding, but a ruling made by an executive officer in the exertion of administrative authority. That authority w

the true line of demarcation is whether as a result of the transaction 'all authority or control' over the lands has passed from 'the Executive Department,' or whether the Governme

Dissemination of ideas depends upon the approval of the distributor by the official. This is administrative censorship in an extreme form. It abridges the freedom of religion, of t

in the interpretation of a doubtful or ambiguous statute the long-continued and uniform practice of the authorities charged with its administration is entitled to great weight, and

The term “administrative cost” means the cost of necessary administrative functions which— (i) the tribe or tribal organization incurs as a result of operating a tribal elementary

The term "administrative costs" means expenditures incurred in the performance of administrative functions under the vocational rehabilitation program carried out under s

The decision of the Court of Appeals under section 9 of the act of 1905 is not a judicial judgment. It is a mere administrative decision. It is merely an instruction to the Commiss

administrative entry, without consent, upon the portions of commercial premises which are not open to the public may only be compelled through prosecution or physical force within

the actual, "necessary costs and expenses of preserving the estate "including .

As used in this subsection, the term “administrative expenses of the receiver” includes— (A) the actual, necessary costs and expenses incurred by the receiver in preserving the ass

the finality provision of the 1952 Act in regard to exclusion refers only to administrative finality

That order was administrative in character. It determined no rights and prescribed no duties of the appellant as an ocean carrier. It demanded the filing of data. No notice or hear

An agency may not finally decide the limits of its statutory power. That is a judicial function.

the ultimate criterion is the administrative interpretation, which becomes of controlling weight unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation

it is sufficient if the inquiry is within the authority of the agency, the demand is not too indefinite and the information sought is reasonably relevant

That branch of the criminal law which regulates the manner in which the different agencies of the governing body are set in motion to punish crime, as opposed to the penal law, whi

the term "administrative leave" means leave— (A) without loss of or reduction in— (i) pay; (ii) leave to which an employee is otherwise entitled under law; or (iii) credi

a denial of a written claim in accordance with rules or regulations prescribed by the Administrator, War Shipping Administration.

Politically and as used in constitutional law, an officer of the executive department of government, and generally one of inferior rank ; legally, a ministerial or executive office

“administrative offset” means withholding funds payable by the United States (including funds payable by the United States on behalf of a State government) to, or held by the Unite

The term “administrative or clerical tasks” means the receipt, collection, and distribution of information common for the processing or underwriting of a loan in the mortgage indus

In this section, the term “administrative organization” means a nonprofit private organization that enters into an agreement with the Corporation to carry out this section.

The vice of the regulation, therefore, is that it assumes to convert what in the view of the statute is a question of fact requiring proof into a conclusive presumption which dispe

“administrative procedure” means procedure used in carrying out an administrative program and is to be broadly construed to include any aspect of agency organization, procedure, or

The term “administrative proceeding” means any procedure or other action before the Internal Revenue Service. / “administrative proceeding” means any Department of the Interior age

“administrative program” includes a Federal function which involves protection of the public interest and the determination of rights, privileges, and obligations of private person

The power of an administrative officer or board to administer a federal statute and to prescribe rules and regulations to that end is not the power to make law, for no such power c

rehearings were not matters of right, but were pleas to discretion. And likewise it has been considered that the discretion to be invoked was that of the body making the order, and

The term “administrative review” means a review open to the participation of the parents of the child, conducted by a panel of appropriate persons at least one of whom is not respo

Definition.—In this section, the term "administrative services and support" includes base or installation support services, office space, utilities, copying services, fir

in this context that any subpoena issued under the auspices of the SEC must come within the purview of a Formal Order of Investigation, see n. 1, supra.

The term “Administrative Supervisor” means the Oversight Board established under section 2121 of this title .

The term "Administrative Unit" means a national forest or national grassland.

the Administrator of EPA.

In the civil law. A manager or conductor of affairs, especially the affairs of another, in his name or behalf, A manager of public affairs in behalf of others. Calvin. A public off

An administrator with the will annexed.

By the common law his duties are confined to the personal estate, unadministered by his predecessor. Whatever authority he may possess as to the real estate must be derived from th

“Administrator of FEMA” means the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; / The terms “Administrator of FEMA”, “career fire department”, “combination fire departm

The instant the plaintiff recovered the judgment, it became a debt due her, on record, and was assets in her hands, for which it was not necessary for her to declare as administrat

One who administers an estate of a testator who named no executor or whose named executor cannot or will not act. See 109 Fed. 847, 54 L. R. A. 680, 4 C. C. A. 692.

A woman to whom letters of administration have been granted and who administers the estate. When an administratrix marries, that fact does not prevent her from suing as such; Cosgr

Lat He has administered. Used in the phrase plene administravit, which is the name of a plea by an executor or administrator to the effect that he has "fully administered" (lawfull

Lat. At the least. Ut ad minus teneatur ad interesse; that he may at least he held to the extent of his interest. Bract, fol. 18 b.

In European law. An officer who presided over the admiralitas or collegium ammiralitatis. Loce, de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 2, § 1. In old English law. A high officer or magistrate tha

In Lat. Admiralty; the admiralty, or court of admiralty. In European law. An association of private armed vessels tor mutual protection and defense against pirates and enemies.

Probate, Divorce, Common at Durham, and by the Assize courts. pellate jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal 18), or of the same court sitting as a ruptcy; the jurisdiction of the Cou

The admiralty is the only court where such a question can be tried; for what other court, but a court of admiralty, has jurisdiction to try a question of salvage?

FIRST LORD OF THE. At the head of the British Navy are five Lords Commissioners. The First Lord is a member of the Cabinet, the others are called Sea Lords.

consistently interpreted as adopting for the United States the system of admiralty and maritime law, as it had been developed in the admiralty courts of England and the Colonies, a

It is a mistake, to consider the use of this process in the admiralty as borrowed from, or in imitation of, the foreign attachment under the custom of London. Its origin is to be f