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LEGAL TERMS
• ADDITUR: The power of trial court to assess damages increase the amount of an
inadequate award made by jury veredict, as a condition of denial or
motion for a new trial.
• ADEMPTION: A cancellation of a legancy. It accurs when an action of the testator is
interpreted as an intentional revocation of the legancy.
• ADJUDICATE: To settle by judical authority.
• ADJUDUCATED: The term used in juvenile court to indicate that a juvenile has been
found to have committed a delinquent act.
• ADJUDICATION: Normally the pronouncement of the judgment or decree in a court
case. A judgment or a decision. In bankruptcy proceedings, it refers
to the court order declaring that the debtor is bankrupt.
• ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: A branch of law geverning procedure before various
government agencies of the executive and legislative branch.
• ADMINISTRATOR: In probate matters the person appointed by a court to settle an
state, usually when there is no will. When it is a woman, the word
«administratrix» is used.
• ADMIT: (Juvenile court) The equivalent of a guilty plea in adult court.
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