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to the delegates, But in cafe of prize-veffels taken in 
time of war, in any part of the world, and condemned in 
any courts of admiralty as lawful prize, the appeal lies to 
certain commiflioners of appeals, confiding chiefly of the 
privy council, and not to judges delegates; and this, by 
virtue of divers treaties with foreign nations; by which, 
particular courts are eflabliflied in all the maritime coun¬ 
tries of Europe, for the decilion of this quedion, whether 
lawful prize or not. For, this being a quedion between 
fubjefts of different dates, it belongs inti rely to the law 
of nations, and not to the municipal laws of either coun¬ 
try, to determine it. 3 Blackjl. 69. 
And fentence in a foreign court of admiralty is to be 
credited here, as ours is to be credited there ; and the par¬ 
ty may libel here for the execution of a fentence in a fo¬ 
reign court of admindty. 
The high court of admiralty is alfo a court not only of 
civil, but of criminal, jurifdiftion. It hath cognizance of 
all crimes and offences committed either upon the fea, or on 
the coads out of the body or extent of any Englifh county. 
And heretofore they were determinable by the foie fen¬ 
tence of the judge of the admiralty; but by the 28 Hen¬ 
ry VIII. c. 15. all felonies committed on the fea fhall be 
tried by commiflioners nominated by the lord chancellor, 
viz. the judge of the admiralty, and three or four more 
(among whom tw'o common-law judges are condantly ap¬ 
pointed, who in effeft try all the prifoners), the indictment 
being fird found by a grand jury of twelve men, and after¬ 
wards tried by another jury, as at common law. 4 Blac/jl. 
268. 
Admiralty Islands, lie in about 2° 18' S. lat. and 
146° 44' E. Ion. There are between twenty and thirty 
ifiands faid to be fcattered about here, one of which alone 
would make a large kingdom. Captain Carteret, who fird 
difcoveretfthem, was prevented touchingatthem, although 
their appearance was very inviting, on account of the con¬ 
dition of his filip, and of his being entirely unprovided 
with the articles of barter which fuit an Indian trade. 
He defcribes them as clothed with a beautiful verdure of 
woods, lofty and luxuriant, interfperfed with fpots that 
have been cleared for plantations, groves of cocoa-nut 
trees, and houfes of the natives, who feem to be very nu¬ 
merous. The larged of thefe ifiands is eighteen leagues 
long, in the direction of ead and wed. The difcoverer 
thinks it highly probable that thefe ifiands produce feve- 
ral valuable articles of trade, particularly lpices, as they 
lie in the fame climate and latitude as the Moluccas. 
ADMIRATION, f. [admiratio, Lat.] Wonder; the 
aft of admiring or wondering. It is taken fometimes in a 
bad fenfe, though generally in a good. 
To ADMIRE, v. a. [ admiro , Lat. admirer , Fr.] To re¬ 
gard with wonder: generally in a good fenfe. It is fome¬ 
times ufed, in more familiar fpeech, for to regard with. love. 
ft is ufed, but rarely, in an ill fenfe. 
To Admire, v. n. To wonder; fometimes with the par¬ 
ticle at.: —The eye is already fo perfeft, that I believe the 
reafon of a man would eafily have reded here, and admired, 
at his own contrivance. Ray. 
ADMIRER, f. The perfon that wonders, or regards 
with admiration. In common fpeech, a lover. 
ADMIRINGLY, adv. With admiration; in the man¬ 
ner of an admirer.-—We may yet further admiringly ob¬ 
serve, that men ufualiy give freelied where they have not 
given before. Boyle. 
ADMISSIBLE, adj. [admitto, admijfum, Lat.] That 
which may be admitted.—Suppofe that this fuppofition 
were admijible, yet this would not any way be inconfident 
with the eternity of tpe divine nature and eflence. Hale. 
ADMISSION,/- [admijfio , Lat.] The aft or praftice 
of admitting. The date of being admitted. Admittance; 
the power of entering, or being admitted—All fprings 
have fome degree of heat, none ever freezing, no not in 
the longed and fevered frods; efpecially thofe, where there 
is fuch a fite and difpolition of the drata as gives free and 
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eafy adntijfion to this heat. Woodward'. — In the ecclefiadi- 
cal law, it is, when the patron prefents a clerk to a church 
that is vacant, and the bilhop, upon examination, admits 
and allows of fuch clerk to be fitly qualified, by faying, 
Admitto te habilem. The allowance of an argument; the 
grant of a polition not fully proved. 
To ADMIT, v. a. [ admitto , Lat.] To differ to enter; 
to grant entrance. To differ to enter upon an office; in 
which fenfe the phrafe of admijjion into a college, &c. is ufed. 
To allow an argument or polition. To allow, or grant in 
general; fometimes with the particle of. —If you on cc add 
rail of a latitude, that thoughts may be exalted, and ima¬ 
ges raifed above the life, that leads you infenfibly from 
your own principles to mine. Dryden. 
ADMITTABLE, adj. The perfon or thing which may 
be admitted.—Becaufe they have not a bladder like thofe 
we obferve in others, they have no gall at all, is a paralo- 
gifm not admittable , a fallacy that needs not the dm to fcat- 
ter it. Brown. 
ADMITTANCE,/] The aft of admitting; allowance 
or permiflion to enter. The power or right of entering. 
Cudom, or prerogative, of being admitted to great per- 
fons: a fenfe now out of ufe. Conceffion of a pofition.—- 
Nor could the Pythagoreans give eafy admittance thereto ; 
for, holding that feparate fouls fuccefiively fupplied other 
bodies, they could hardly allow the rdiling of fouls from 
other worlds. Brown. 
Admittance, in law, is the giving poffeffion of a co¬ 
pyhold edate, as livery of feifm is of a freehold. And it 
is of three kinds: — 1. Upon a voluntary grant by the lord , 
where the land hath efeheated or reverted to him. In 
this cafe, though he might keep the land in his own hand, 
or might grant the fame in fee, and fo infranchife it, yet, 
if he will difpofe of it as copyhold, he is bound to grant 
the ufual edate, and referve the ufual rent, and obferve 
the ancient cudom precifely in every point; otherwife it 
would be to create a new copyhold. 2. Upon furrender by 
the former tenant. In this cafe, the lord is not proprietor, 
but only a neceffary indrument of conveyance; the party 
claiming his edate under him that made the furrender. 
But, until his admittance, the tenant hath no edate, and 
therefore cannot furrender it again to a dranger before 
admittance. 3. Admittance by defeent ; which is, where 
an heir is tenant immediately on the death of his ancedor. 
The lord here is a mere indrument; for the heir may en¬ 
ter upon the land, take the profits, bring actions of tref- 
pafs, and furrender to whofe ufe he pleafes, before admit¬ 
tance; though, before admittance, he cannot be fworn of 
the homage.. This admittance of the heir is not to drength- 
en his edate, but to entitle the lord to his dne. And, if 
the heir will not come in and take his admittance, he fhall 
forfeit his edate, or be fubieft to a penalty, according as 
the cudom of the manor may be. Wood , b. ii. c. 1. 
To ADMIX, v. a. [admifeeo, Lat.] To mingle with 
fomething elfe. 
ADM 1 XTION, f. The union of one body with ano¬ 
ther, by mingling them.—The elements are no where pure 
in thele lower regions; and, if there is any free from the 
admixtion of another, fure it is above the concave of the 
moon. Glanville. 
ADMIXTURE, f The body mingled with another; 
perhaps fometimes the aft of mingling.—A mafs which to 
the eye appears to be nothing but mere dmple earth, fhall, 
to the fmell or tade, difeover a plentiful admixture of ful- 
phur, alum, or fome other mineral. Woodward. 
To ADMONISH, v. a. [admoneo, Lat.] To warn of a 
fault; to reprove gently; to counfel againd wrong practi¬ 
ces; to put in mind of a fault or a duty; with the parti¬ 
cle 0/, or which is more rare; or the infinitive 
mood of a verb. 
ADMONISHER, f. The perfon that admonifhes, or 
puts another in mind of his faults or duty.—Horace was 
■a mild admoni/her; a court-fatirid fit for the gentle'times 
of Augudus. Dryden. 
ADMONISHMENT, 
