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In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage into a mine; the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried aWay; a horizontal excavation in and along a lode. Electro Magnetic M. & D. Co. v. Van Auken, 9 Colo. 204, 11 Pac. 80; Gray v. Truby, 6 Colo. 278. … [Read more...] about ADIT

In French and civil law.. The purchaser at a judicial sale. Brent v. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793. … [Read more...] about ADJUDICATEE

An approach; a way; a public way. Co. Litt. 56a. … [Read more...] about ADITUS

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, … [Read more...] about ADJUDICATIO

Lying near or close to; contiguous. The difference between adjacent and adjoining seems to be that the former implies that the two objects are not widely separated, though they may not actually touch, while adjoining imports that they are so joined or united to each other that no third object intervenes. People v. Keechler, 194 111 235, 62 N. E. 525; Hanifen v. Armitage (C. C.) … [Read more...] about ADJACENT