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ADVERSE ENJOYMENT

The possession or exercise of an easement, under a claim ofright against the owner of the land out of which such easement is derived. 2 W’aslib.Real Prop. 42; Cox v. Forrest, 00

ACTIO DE PECULIO

An action concerning or against the peculium, or separate property of a party.

ACTIO MANDATI

Included actions to enforce contracts of mandate, or obligations arising out of them. Hunter. Rom. Law, 310.

ACTIO RESCISSORIA

An action for restoring the plaintiff to a right or title which he has lost by prescription, in a case where the equities are such that he should be relieved from the

ACTIONABLE NUISANCE

Anything injurious to health, or indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.

ACTS OF COURT

Legal memoranda made in the admiralty courts in England, in lhe nature of pleas.

AD CAMPI PARTEM

For a share of the field or land, for ehampert. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 30,

AD EXITUM

At issue; at the end (of the pleadings.) Steph. PI. 24.

AD RESPONDENDUM

For answering ; to make answer; words used in certain writs employed for bringing a person before the court to make answer in defense in a proceeding. Thus there is a capias

ADEQUATE

Sufficient; proportionate; equally efficient

ADITUS

An approach ; a way; a public way. Co. Lltt. 50a.

ADJUDICATE

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. Ct. 1033, 32 L.

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

ADMINISTRATRIX

A female who administers, or to whom letters of administration have been granted.

ADM’R

This abbreviation will be Judicially presumed to mean “administrator.” Moseley v. Mastin, 37 Ala. 210, 221.

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