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To purge one's self of a crime by oath. … [Read more...] about ADLEGIARE

Statute enacts that if any person unlawfully and maliciously shall administer, or attempt to administer to any person, or shall cause to be taken by any person any poison or other destructive things, every such offender In a case which arose under this statute, it was decided that to constitute the act of administering the poison, it was not absolutely necessary there should … [Read more...] about ADMINISTER or ADMINISTERING

A person who swore by laying his hands on the book. … [Read more...] about ADMANUENSIS

(A) trusts. The management of the estate of an intestate, a minor, a lunatic, an habitual drunkard, or other person who is incapable of managing his own affairs, entrusted to an administrator or other trustee by authority of law. In a more confined sense, and in which it will be used in this article, administration is the management of an intestate's estate, or of the estate of … [Read more...] about ADMINISTRATION

Ascertainment by measure; measuring out; assignment or apportionment by measure, that is, by fixed quantity or value, by certain limits, or in definite and fixed proportions. Admeasurement of dower. In practice. A remedy which lay for the heir on reaching his majority to rectify an assignment of dower made during his minority, by which the dower ess had received more than she … [Read more...] about ADMEASUREMENT