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Adnepos






Adnepos

A term employed by the Romans to designate male descendants in the fifth degree, in a direct line. This term is used in making genealogical tables.

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Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.

Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.

Male
Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young; the sex opposed to the female.

Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.

Degree
1) Descents. This word is derived from the French degre, which is itself taken from the Latin gradus, and signifies literally, a step in a stairway, or the round of a ladder. 2) measures. In angular measures, a degree is equal to sixty minutes, or the thirtieth part of a sine. 3) persons. By degree, is understood the state or condition of a person.

Direct
Straight forward; not collateral.

Line
1) Measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. 2) Estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.

Tables
A synopsis in which many particulars are brought together in a general view; as genealogical tables, which are composed of the names of persons



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Admission
In corporations or companies. The act of the corporation or company by which an individual acquires the rights of a member of such corporation or company.

Admissions
1) It, frequently occurs in practice, that in order to save expenses as to mere formal proofs, the attorneys on each side consent to admit, reciprocally, certain facts in the cause without calling for proof of them. 2) Of attorneys and counselors. To entitle counsellors and attorneys to practice in court, they must be admitted by the court to practice there. Different statutes and rules have been made to regulate their admission; they generally require a previous qualification by study under the direction of some practicing counsellor or attorney.

Admittance
English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate, as livery of seisin is of a freehold; it is of three kinds, namely uponavoluntary grant by the lord, upon a surrender by the former tenant and upon descent.

Admonish
To advise or caution. For example the court may caution or admonish counsel for wrong practices.

Admonition
A reprimamd from a judge to a person accused, on being discharged, warning him of the consequences of his conduct, and intimating to him, that should he be guilty of the same fault for which he has been admonished, he will be punished with greater severity.

Adnepos

Adolescence
Persons.That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of majority; it commences for males at fourteen, and for females at twelve years completed, and continues till twenty-one years complete.

Adoption
Civil law. The act by which a person chooses another from a strange family, to have all the rights of his own child.

Adr
Abbreviation for alternative dispute resolution.

Adrogation
Civil law. The adoption of one who was impubes, that is, if a male, under fourteen years of age; if a female, under twelve.

Adult
Civil law. An infant who, if a boy, has attained his full age of fourteen years, and if a girl, her full age of twelve.

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