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In Welsh law. A proprietor who, for some cause, entered the service of another proprietor, and left him after the expiration of a year and a day. He was liable to the payment of 30 pence to his patron. Wharton. … [Read more...] about ADLAMWR

To discharge the duties of an office; to take charge of business; to manage affairs; to serve in the conduct of affairs, in the application of things to their uses; to settle and distribute the estate of a decedent, In physiology, and in criminal law, to administer means to cause or procure a person to take some drug or other substance into his or her system; to direct and … [Read more...] about ADMINISTER

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