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• ADJUDICATION (Lat. adjudicatio; adjudicare, to award)

ADJUDICATION (See also:

• LAT

Lat. adjudicatio; adjudicare, to See also:

• AWARD (from O. Fr. ewart, or esguart, cf. " reward ")

award)  , generally, a trying or determining of a See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case by the exercise of judicial See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power; a See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment . In a more technical sense, in See also:

• ENGLISH

English and See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, an See also:

• ADJUDICATION (Lat. adjudicatio; adjudicare, to award)

adjudication is an See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of the See also:

• BANKRUPTCY (from Lat. bancus or Fr. banquet table or counter, and Lat. ruptus, broken)

bankruptcy courts by which a debtor is adjudged bankrupt and his See also:

• PROPERTY

property vested in a trustee . It usually proceeds from a See also:

• RESOLUTION

resolution of the creditors or where no See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition or See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of arrangement has been proposed by the debtor . It may be said to consummate bankruptcy, for not till then does a debtor's property actually vest in a trustee for See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division among the creditors, though from the first See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of bankruptcy till adjudication it is protected by a receiving order . As to the effect which adjudication has on the bankrupt, see under BANKRUPTCY . The same See also:

• PROCESS

process in Scots law is called See also:

• SEQUESTRATION

sequestration . In Scots law the See also:

• TERM

term " adjudication " has quite a different meaning, being the name of that See also:

• ACTION

action by which a creditor attaches the heritable, i.e. the real, See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate of his debtor, or his debtor's See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir, in order to appropriate it to himself either in See also:

• PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment or See also:

• SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security of his See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt . The term is also applied to a proceeding of the same nature by which the holder of a heritable right, labouring under any defect in point of See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, gets that defect supplied by See also:

• DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

decree of a See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court .