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Adolescence
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AdolescencePersons.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.
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Puberty
Civil law. The age in boys after fourteen years until full age, and in girls after twelve years until full age.
Majority
1) Persons. The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a major, in opposition to minor, which is his condition during infancy. 2) Government. The greater number of the voters; though in another sense, it means the greater number of votes given in which sense it is a mere plurality.
Years
Estate for years.
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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
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.
Adolescence
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.
Adulteration
This term denotes the act of mixing something impure with something pure, as, to mix an inferior liquor with wino; au inferior article with coffee, tea,.and the like.
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Puberty
Civil law. The age in boys after fourteen years until full age, and in girls after twelve years until full age.
Majority
1) Persons. The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a major, in opposition to minor, which is his condition during infancy. 2) Government. The greater number of the voters; though in another sense, it means the greater number of votes given in which sense it is a mere plurality.
Years
Estate for years.
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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
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.
Adolescence
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.
Adulteration
This term denotes the act of mixing something impure with something pure, as, to mix an inferior liquor with wino; au inferior article with coffee, tea,.and the like.
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