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countries. To this end they had their correfpondents de¬ 
legated, emiflaries, vifitors, regents, provincials, &c. 
To ADJUTE, v. a. [adjuvo, adjutum, l.a.t.'] To help; 
to concur : a word not now in ufe. 
ADJUTOR,yi [ adjutor, Lat.] A helper. 
ADJUTORIUM,y. a term ufed by phyficians for any 
medicine in a prefcription but the capital one. 
ADJUTORY, adj. [adjutorius, Lat.] That which helps. 
ADJUTRlX,yi [Lat.] She who helps. 
ADJUVANT, adj. [adjuvans , Lat.] Helpful; ufeful. 
TbADJUVATE, v.a. [adjuvo, Lat.] To help; to fur¬ 
ther; to put forward. 
ADLEGATION,yi in the public law of the German 
empire, a right claimed by the dates of the empire of ad¬ 
joining plenipotentiaries, in public treaties and negocia- 
tions, to thofe of the emperor, for the tranfafting of mat¬ 
ters which relate to the empire in general. In which fenfe 
adlegation differs front legation, which is the right of fend¬ 
ing ambaffadors upon a perfon’s own account. Several 
princes and dates of the empire enjoy the right of lega¬ 
tion, who have not that of adlegation, and vice verfa. The 
bifhops, for indance, have the right of adlegation in the 
treaties which concern the common intered, but no right 
of legation for their own private affairs. The like had 
the duke of Mantua. The emperor allows the princes of 
Germany the privilege of legation, but difputes that of 
adlegation. They challenge it as belonging to them jure 
regn'i, which they enjoy in common with the emperor him- 
felf. 
ADLESBURG, an extraordinary cavern in Carniola; 
the paffages in it are of fome miles extent; from the top, 
fparricles, and along the ddes, a fort of pillars, with va¬ 
rious grotefque figures, have been formed by the exfuda- 
tions of the lapideous or petrifying fluid. 
ADLOCUTION,y. [adlocutio, Lat.] In antiquity, chiefly 
underdood of fpeeches made by Roman generals to their 
armies, to encourage them before a battle. We frequent¬ 
ly find thefe adlocutions expreffed on medals by the ab¬ 
breviature adlocut. coh. The general is lometimes 
reprefented as feated on a tribunal, often on a bank or 
mount of turf, with the cohorts ranged orderly round him. 
ADMANUENSES, f in ancient law-books, denote 
perfons who fwore by laying their hands on the book. In 
which fenfe, admanuenfes amount to the fame with lay¬ 
men, and dand oppofed to clerks, who were forbidden to 
fwear on the book, their word being to be reputed as their 
oath; whence they were alfo denominated fidedigni. 
ADMEASUREMENT,y [admenfuratio, Lat;] Inlaw, 
is a writ brought for remedy againd Rich perfons as ufurp 
more than their fliare, to bring them to reafon. It lies in 
two cafes; one is, admeafurement of dower, where a man’s 
widow after his deceafe holds from the heir more land as 
dower than of right belongs to her: in which cafe, the 
heir fliall have this writ againd the widow r , whereby the 
fliall be admeafured, and the heir redored to the overplus. 
The other is,- admeafurement of pafure, where a man has 
common appendant or appurtenant to his land, or common 
in grofs, the quantity of which common hath never yet 
been alcertained : in which cafe, as well the lord as any 
of the commoners is intitled to the writ of admeafurement ; 
which is one of thofe writs that are called vicontiel, being 
directed to the flieriff (vicecomiti), and not to be returned 
to any fuperior court, till finally executed by him. It re¬ 
cites a complaint, that the defendant had furcharged the 
common; and therefore commands the theriff to admea- 
fure and apportion it, that the defendant may not have 
more than belongs to him, and that the plaintiff may have 
his rightful fliare. And upon this fuit the commoners 
fliall be admeafured, as well thofe who have not as thofe 
who have furcharged the common, as well the plaintiff 
as the defendant. The execution of this writ mud be by 
a jury of twelve men, who are upon their oaths to afeer- 
tain, under the fuperintendance of the flieriff, what and 
how many cattle each commoner is intitled to put upon the 
common. And the rule for this admeafurement is gene- 
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rally underload to be, that the commoner fliall not turn 
more cattle upon the common than are diffident to ma¬ 
nure and dock the land to which his right of common is 
annexed; or, as our ancient law expreffed it, fucli cattle 
only as are levant and couchant upon his tenement; which 
being a thing uncertain before admeafurement, has fre¬ 
quently, though erroneoufly, occafioned this unmeafured 
right of common to be called a common without dint or 
•without number; a thing which, though poffible in law, 
doth in fact very rarely exid. If, after the admeafure- 
ment has thus afeertained the right, the fame defendant 
fureharges the common again, the plaintiff may have a 
writ of fecond furcharge, defecunda fuperoneratione, which 
is given by flatute 13 Edw. I. c. 8. and thereby the flieriff 
is directed to enquire by a jury, whether the defendant has 
in fad again furcharged the common, contrary to the te¬ 
nor of the lad admeafurement; and if he has, he fliall 
then forfeit to the king the fupernumerary cattle put in, 
and fliall alfo pay damages to the plaintifl'. 3 Blackjl. 238. 
ADMENSURATION, f. [ad and menfura, Lat.] The 
ad, or pradice, of meafuring out to each his part. 
ADMINICLE, f [adminiculum, Lat.] Help; fupport; 
furtherance. 
ADMINICULAR, adj. [fromadminiculum, Lat,] That 
which gives help. 
ADMINICULATOR, f. an ancient officer of the 
church, wliole bufinefs it was to attend to and defend the 
caufeof the widows, orphans, and others, deftitute of help. 
To ADMINISTER, v.a. [adminif ro, Lat.] To give; 
to afford; to fupply. To ad as the minifter or agent in 
any employment or office; generally, but not always, with 
fome hint of fubordination : as, to adminifer the govern¬ 
ment. To adminider juflice; to diftribute right. To 
adminider the facraments, to difpenfe them. To admi¬ 
nider an oath; to propofe or require an oath authorita¬ 
tively; to tender an oath. To adminider phytic ; to give 
phytic as it is wanted. To adminider to; to contribute; 
to bring fupplies. To perform the office of an adminif* 
trator, in law. 
To ADMINISTRATE, v.a. [adminiftro, Lat.] To ex¬ 
hibit; to give as phyfic. Not now in ufe. 
ADMINISTRATION,/! [adminif ratio, Lat.] The ad 
of adminidering or conducting any employment; as, the 
conduding the public affairs; difpenling the laws. The 
adive or executive part of government.—It may pafs for 
a maxim in date, that the adminflration cannot be placed 
in too few hands, nor the legiflature in too many. Swift. 
—Colledively, thofe to whom the care of public affairs is 
committed; as, the adminiflralion has been oppofed in par¬ 
liament. Didribution; exhibition; difpenfation.—By the 
univerfal adminif ration of grace, begun by our bleffed Sa¬ 
viour, enlarged by his apoflles, carried on by their imme¬ 
diate fucceffors, and to be completed by the red to the 
world’s ehd, all types that darkened this faith are en¬ 
lightened. Sprat. 
Administration, in law, is the management of the 
goods and chattels of one that died intedate, committed 
unto him by the ordinary. He or fhe to whom theadmi- 
nidration is committed, is called the adminiflrator or ad- 
minidratrix. 
Adminidration of the goods and chattels of the wife 
fliall be granted to the hufband or his reprefentatives; and 
of the hulband’s effects, to the widows or next of kin, or 
to both. Among the kindred, thofe are to be preferred 
that are the neared in degree to the intedate; but, of per¬ 
fons in equal degree, the ordinary may take which he plea- 
fes. This nearnefs of degree fliall be reckoned accord¬ 
ing to the computation of the civilians, and not of the 
canonids, which the law of England adopts in the defeent 
of realedates; becaufe in the civil computation the intef- 
tate himfelf is the terminus from which the feveral degrees 
are numbered ; and not the common ancedor, according 
to the rule of the canonids. And therefore, in the firff 
place, the children, or (on failure of the children) the pa¬ 
rents, of the deceafed, are intitled to the adminidration: 
H h both 
