An act of legislation which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner prescribed therein, by the inhabitants of that area.

Lat Adoptive. Applied both to the parent adopting, and the child adopted. Inst. 2, 13, 4; Id. 3, 1, 10-14.

In the civil and Scotch law. A guarantor, surety, or cautioner ; a peculiar species of fidejussor; one who adds his own promise to the promise given by the principal […]

Payment. Blount

To set right, satisfy, or make amends.

In old European law. To undertake, declare, or promise solemnly; to pledge; to pledge one’s self to make oath. Spelman.

Sea-weed, between high and low water-mark, which has not been deposited on the shore, and which during flood-tide is moved by each rising and receding wave, is adrift, although the […]

In the civil law . The adoption of one who was impubes; that is, if a male, under fourteen years of age; if a female, under twelve. Dig. 1, 7, […]

An abbreviation for ad. scetam, which means “at the suit of.” Bowen v. Sewing Mach. Co., 80 111. 1L

Lat In the civil law . Ascendants. Dig. 23, 2, 68; Cod. 5, 6, 6.

Slaves who served the master of the soil, who were annexed to the land, and passed with it when it was conveyed. Calvin. In Scotland, as late as the reign […]

In the civil law . Added, annexed, or bound by or in writing; enrolled, registered: united, joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Scrius colonce adscrip- tus, a slave annexed to an […]

Side judges. Assistants or advisers of the regular magistrates, or appointed as their substitutes in certain cases. Calvin.

Refer to asymmetrical digital subscriber line.

How any non solid substance attaches to a solid substance but does not penetrate it fully.

In Roman law. An accessory party to a promise, who received the same promise as his principal did, and could equally receive and exact payment; or lie only stipulated for […]

In the civil law . A male infant who has attained the age of fourteen ; a female infant who has attained the age of twelve. Dom. Liv. Prel. tit. […]

Any sons or daughters who have attained the age of an adult.

Lat. One who corrupts; one who seduces another man’s wife. Adulter solidorum. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter . Calvin.

The act of corrupting or debasing. The term is generally applied to the act of mixing up with food or drink intended to be sold other matters of an inferior […]

Lat In the civil law . A forger; a counterfeiter . Adultera- tores moncta;, counterfeiters of money. Dig. 48, 19, 16, 9.

Begotten in an adulterous intercourse . In the Roman and canon law, adulterine bastards were distinguished from such as were the issue of two unmarried persons, and the former were […]

Traders acting as a corporation without a charter, and paying a fine annually for permission to exercise their usurped privileges. Smith, Wealth Nat. b. 1, c. 10.

A fine anciently imposed as a punishment for the commission of adultery.

Adulterous bastards are those produced by an unlawful connection between two persons, who, at the time when the child was conceived, were, either of them or both, connected by marriage […]