In the law of insurance, the adjustment of a loss is the ascertainment of its amount and the ratable distribution of it among those liable to pay it; the settling […]
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ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE
In a depressed economy where imports are less expensive or a firm is cutting back, the government will offer assistance to retrain employees who lose their jobs.
ADJUSTMENT BOND
Bonds that are issued and recapitalized when a firm is failing and ready to declare bankruptcy replacing existing bonds held by shareholders.
ADJUSTMENT DATE
When an Adjustable Rate Mortgage’s (ARM) interest rate is adjusted.
ADJUSTMENT INCOME
A policy that affords a living to the inheritor in the event of the death of the insured until the inheritor can maintain a living on their own.
ADJUSTMENT POLICIES
When the government helps reduce or get rid of debt owed.
ADJUSTMENT PROVISION
An agreement by an insured and insurer allowing changes within a policy to increse or decrease the payment or value, or to lengthen or shorten the length of protection aforded […]
ADJUSTMENTS
Altering the national budget per the government considering the present and future expected world economy to balance payments by manipulating funds between different factions within the nation and foreign exchange […]
ADJUSTMENTS ESTIMATE
A request to parliament for a rider attached to a bill changing the amount of money set aside for a yearly budget.
ADJUTANT GENERAL
This person is the chief administrative officer of the Army.
ADJUVARI QUIPPE NOS, NON DECIPI, BENE- FICIO OPORTET
We ought to be favored, not injured, by that which is intended for our benefit. (The species of bailment called “loan” must be to the advantage of the borrower, not […]
ADLAMWR
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 . lie was […]
ADLEGIARE
To purge one’s self of a crime by oath.
ADM’R
This abbreviation will be Judicially presumed to mean ” administrator .” Moseley v. Mastin, 37 Ala. 210, 221.
ADMANUENSIS
A person who swore by laying his hands on the book.
ADMEASUREMENT
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 […]
ADMEASUREMENT OF PASTURE
In English law . A writ which lies between those that have common of pasture appendant, or by vicinage, in cases where any one or more of them surcharges the […]
ADMEASUREMENT, WRIT OF
It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases: Admeasurement of dower , and admeasurement of pasture. Tennes de la Ley.
ADMENSURATIO
In old English law . Admeasurement . Reg. Orig. 150, 157.
ADMEZATORES
In old Italian law. Persons chosen by the consent of contending parties, to decide questions between them. Literally, mediators. Spelman.
ADMINICLE
In Scotch law. An aid or support to something else. A collateral deed or writing, referring to another which has been lost, and which it is in general necessary to […]
ADMINICULAR
Auxiliary to. “The murder would be adminicular to the rob bery,” (i. e., committed to accomplish It) The Marianna Flora, 3 Mason, 121, Fed. Cas. No. 9080.
ADMINICULAR EVIDENCE
Ill ecclesiastical law . Auxiliary or supplementary evidence; such as is presented lor the purpose of explaining and completing other evidence.
ADMINICULATE
To give adminicular evidence .