Law Dictionary

As to this.

To the man; personal.

One vested in the complainant, to which he may at all times resort at his own option, fully and freely, without let or hindrance. 54 Conn. 249.

I. He still retains. the parties may yet draw back.

At this day.

A term used In the laws of Holland for the application of property by an executor. Wharton.

To the same effect.

l, Aleier, fr. To purge one's self of crime by oath. v. Purgation.

(Law Fr. without day). A common term in the Year Books, implying final dismissal from court. Literally, "to God." Frequently written "Adeu." Y. B. T. 5 Edw. II. 173.

Fr. Without day. A com. mon term in the Year Books, implying final dismissal from court,

A designation should be made from the more fitting.

The designation and explanation ought to be made from the more fitting.

arhaniire, arraniire, To undertake, declai-e, or promise make oath. Ads., adsm., ats. Abbreviations of

In the civil law. Adjunction; a species ot aecessio, whereby two things belonging to different proprietors are brought into firm connection with each other; such as interweaving, (

Inthe Roman law. The Addilitian Edict; an edict providing remedies for frauds in sales, the execution of which belonged to the curule zdiles. Dig. 21,1. See Cod. 4, 58.

Lat. To that; thereto, or thereunto. Toums. PL 22.

Thereunto. Ad inde requisitus, thereunto required. Townsh. PI. 22.

From thence required.

Without end.

A writ commanding an inquiry or investigation.

At the instance.

In the meantime.

A waxy substance (chemically margarate of ammonium or ammonia-cal soap) formed by the decomposition of animal matter protected from the air but subjected to moisture; in medical ju

Lost; strayed; a price or value set upon things stolen or lost, as a recompense to the owner. Cowell.

Approach or access. As used in mining law, a horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away. Also called "drift." ADITUS (Lat. adire). A

Lat To itinerate. Justitiarii ad itinerandum de eomitatu in comitatum; justices to itinerate from county-to county. Bract, fol. 108 b. See Iter,Justitiarius. AD 'JUNGENDUM AUXILIUM

I An entering upon an solutioue cedit: entering upon

A right of entrance.

having a "continuous surface connection" between the wetland and its neighboring creek, "ante," at 742.

The term “adjacent coastal State” means any coastal State which (A) would be directly connected by pipeline to a deepwater port, as proposed in an application; (B) would be located

The term “adjacent islands” includes Saint Pierre, Miquelon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, the Windward and Leeward Islands, Trinida

lands in proximity, contiguous to, or near to the road.

The term “adjacent site” means a site that borders a boundary line of National Forest System land.

adjectire, I. I. In old Adjectivus, adjactivus: summoned.

/. fr. Addition; addition

That which regulates procedure; so called from its function to aid the substantive. Holland, Jur. 78. The law of pleading, practice, evidence, remedies and procedure, designed mere

I. In the civil law. To add

touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near to or adjacent"); see also Black's Law Dictionary 38–39 (5th ed. 1979) (same); Webster's Third 26–27 (similar).

For purposes of this subsection, the terms “adjoining country”, “appropriate congressional committees”, “armed group”, and “conflict mineral” have the meaning given those terms und

See Eminent Domain; Lateral Support; Fence; Window.

adjournare, adjurnare, to give another day; to give or at a day. Adjornent assisas: revoking. Applied particularly to the the testator in his life-time, as by property otherwisa in

Adjurnatus. L. Lat. [from adjornare, or adjurnare, q. v.] Adjourned. Quae quidem recordum et processus adjornata sunt coram vobis; which record and process are adjourned before you

To adjourn.

In strictness, to put off to a day specified. Also to suspend business for a time; to defer or delay. 14 How. Pr. (N. Y.),54. See "Postponement."

In Scotch practice. A term applied to the records of criminal courts. Books of Adjournal (old Scotch, "Bukis of Adiornale") were the original records of criminal trials, most of wh

An adjournment is to appoint a day or give a day. 4 Inst. 27. Hence the formula "eat sine die."

In Lat. It is adjourned. A word with which the old reports very frequently conclude a case. 1 Ld. Raym. 602 ; 1 Show. 7; 1 Leon. 88.

In English practice. A summons or citation issued m

A continuation of a previous or regular term. 4 Ohio St. 473; 22 Ala. (N. S.) 27. Gen. St. Mass. c. 112, § 26, provides for holding an adjourned law term from time to time.

To adjourn.

The determinative question in reference to an 'adjournment' is not whether it is a final adjournment of Congress or an interim adjournment, such as an adjournment of the first sess

In English practice. A day appointed by the judges at the regular sittings for the trial of causes at nisi prius.

In English practice. A day appointed some days before the end of the term, at which matters left undone on the affirmance day are finished. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1224.

The appointment of a day when the justices in eyre mean to sit again. Cowell; Spelman; Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 186.

Adjuster. L. Fr. To put to; to add or reckon; to make even; to set right. L. Fr. Diet.

To decide or determine. It is sometimes used with "considered, ordered, determined, decreed as one of the operative words of a final judgment," but is also applicable to interlocut

Lat. [from odf, to, and judicare, to judge; L. Fr. adjudger.] To adjudge, to determine; to decree to a person; to assign by judgment, i. e., by the act of a court. Adjwlicatum; adj

In Canadian law. A purchaser at a sheriff's sale. See 1 Low. (U. S.) 241; 10 Low. (U. S.) 325.

To settle in the exercise of judicial authority. To determine finally. Synonymous with adjudge in its strictest sense. United States v. Irwin, 127 U. S. 125, 8 Sup. Ot 1033, 32 L.

In French and civil lawThe purchaser at a judicial sale. Brent v. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793.

In the Civil law. An adjudication. The judgment of the court that the subject-matter is the property of one of the litigants; confirmation of title by judgment. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

the entry of an adjudication vests title in the trustee, and this is the act of the court, not of the petitioner

In Scotch law. A species of diligence, or process for transferring the estate of a debtor to a creditor, carried on as an ordinary action before the court of session. Ersk. Inst. b

When a debtor's heir apparent renounces the succession, any creditor may obtain a decree cognitionis causa, the purpose of which is that the amount of the debt may be ascertained s

An adjudication in bankruptcy, until followed by the appointment of a trustee, does not divest the bankrupt's title to a cause of action against a third person or prevent him from

In ADJUNCTION (Lat. adjungere, to join to). In civil law. The attachment or union permanently of a thing belonging to one person to that belonging to another. This union may be cau

The judgment or decree of a court having jurisdiction, that a person against whom a petition in bankruptcy has been filed, or who has filed his voluntary petition, be ordered and a

Undoubtedly, as in all other judicial proceedings, an adjudication refusing a discharge in bankruptcy, finally determines, for all time and in all courts, as between those parties

the limitation to hearings 'required by statute' in § 5 of the Administrative Procedure Act exempts from that section's application only those hearings which administrative agencie

in the Scotch law, are certain proceedings against debtors, by way of actions, before the court of session; and are of two, kinds; special and general. 1. By statute 1672, c. 19, s

Decided, settled, adjudged, adjudicated, q. v. Res adjudicata, or res judicata. A thing adjudicated; a case decided; a matter settled. Plural, res adjudicatce or judioatce. 1 Cromw

To judgment; to court.

To judgment.

Z. In old English law. To forjudge. Adjudicetur mcdius de feodo et seryitio suo: the mesne shall be forjudged of his fee and service. In the civil law. To adjudge; to determine; to

In this section, the term “adjunct content specialist” means an individual who— (1) meets the applicable State certification and licensure requirements, including any requirements

In the civil law. Adjunction; a species of accessio, whereby two things belonging to different proprietors are brought into firm connection with each other; such as interweaving, (

The uniting of one article or material with another by which the lesser becomes a part of the greater.

Additional judges sometimes appointed in the high court of delegates. See Shelf. Lun. 310.

An adjunct.

An accessory or appurtenance.

To joining in aid; to join in aid. See "Aid Prayer."

To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king's clerk; presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king's title. Reg

A swearing or binding upon oath.

I. I. In old European law. Adjournment in the original sense; a summoning to court at a certain day; the assignment of a certain day to appear in court.

To put in order; to determine an amount due. See State v. Staub, 61 Conn. 553, 23 Atl. 924; State v. Moore, 40 Neb. 854, 59 N. W. 755, 25 L. R. A. 774. Accounts are adjusted when t

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “adjustable benefit” means— (I) benefits, rights, and features under the plan, including post-retirement death benefits, 60-month guarantee

The term “adjustable rate mortgage” means a residential mortgage that has an interest rate that is subject to change. A residential mortgage that: (A) does not fully amortize over

The term “adjusted actual production history yield” means— (A) in the case of an eligible producer on a farm that has at least 4 years of actual production history yields for an in

The term “adjusted age of housing” means the arithmetic product of the age of housing in the metropolitan city or urban county multiplied times the adjustment factor.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “adjusted allowable risk corridor costs” means, for a plan for a coverage year (as defined in subsection (b)(4))— (i) the allowable risk c

The term “adjusted amount” means, with respect to a covered State— (A) for fiscal year 2008, 90 percent of— (i) the sum of the amounts paid for fiscal year 2006 under section 102(a

For purposes of this section, the term “adjusted average per capita cost” means the average per capita amount that the Secretary estimates in advance (on the basis of actual experi

The term “adjusted base amount” means— (A) except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, $34,000, (B) $44,000 in the case of a joint return, and (C) zero in the case of a taxpaye

The term “adjusted base period income” means the average of the inflation-adjusted possession incomes of the corporation for each base period year.

For purposes of clause (i), the term “adjusted cash value” means the cash surrender value of the policy or contract increased by the sum of— (I) commissions payable with respect to

The term “adjusted disbursements” means disbursements from the plan reduced by the product of— (I) the plan's funding target attainment percentage for the plan year, and (II) the s

The term "adjusted exploration expenditures" means, with respect to any property or mine— (A) the amount of the expenditures allowed for the taxable year and all precedin

For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “adjusted Federal long-term rate” means the Federal long-term rate determined under section 1274(d), except that— (A) paragraphs (2) and (3)

For purposes of this part, the term "adjusted financial statement income" means, with respect to any corporation for any taxable year, the net income or loss of the taxpa

The term “adjusted funding target attainment percentage” means the funding target attainment percentage which is determined under paragraph (1) by increasing each of the amounts un