Latin: In the civil law. Ascendants. Dig. 23, 2, 68; Cod. 5, 5. 6. … [Read more...] about ADSCENDENTES
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ADMINISTRATOR DE BONIS NON
Administrator of goods that is not administered. A temporary administrator who finishes a probate proceeding when the original executor or administrator is unable to do so. … [Read more...] about ADMINISTRATOR DE BONIS NON
ADMISSIONALIS
In European law. An usher. Spelman. … [Read more...] about ADMISSIONALIS
ADOPT
(A) Family Law; to assume the legal responsibility for a child. (B) General: To approve, to ratify, to accept something. For example, a board of directors of a corporation will adopt the bylaws. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition To accept, appropriate, choose, or select; to make that one's own (property or act) which was not so originally. To adopt a route for the … [Read more...] about ADOPT
ADSCRIPTI GLEBAE
Slaves who served the master of the soil, who were annexed to the land, and passed with it when it was conveyed. Calvin. In Scotland, as late as the reign of George III., laborers in collieries and salt works were bound to the coal pit or salt work in which they were engaged, in a manner similar to that of the adscnpU of the Romans. Bell. … [Read more...] about ADSCRIPTI GLEBAE