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1. ABH in A, n. View full entry 1975
...actual bodily harm; cf. G.B.H.G6....
2. abbreviate, n. View full entry 1531
...Chiefly Sc. A condensed account of something; an abridgement; a summary; an abstract. Now Sc. Law: a brief notice registering a decree of adjudication (adjudication3a)...
3. absolvitor, n. View full entry 1547
...A decree or decision of a court in favour of a defendant in an action. Also as postmodifier. In later use only in decree of absolvitor. Cf. condemnator...
4. accession, n. View full entry 1761
...a deed drawn up by the creditors of a bankrupt person, by which they accept an arrangement made by him or her for settling his or her debts....
5. accord, v. View full entry c1400
...intr. Chiefly impers. or with it as dummy subject. To be suitable or proper; to befit. Sc.Law in later use in as accords...
6. accresce, v. View full entry 1570
...intr. To come by way of an addition or increase, to accrue. Chiefly of a failed share (Law, chiefly and now only Sc.Law): to pass to...
7. actual bodily harm in actual, adj. and n. View full entry 1837
...minor physical injury inflicted on a person by the deliberate action of another, considered less serious than grievous bodily harm (cf. grievous bodily harmgrievous3b); (also occas.) emotional trauma...
8. adducer, n. View full entry 1681
...A person who adduces a †witness (obs.), fact, statement, etc....
9. ad factum praestandum, adv. View full entry 1684
...With reference to a court order, decree, etc.: such that a particular task or action must be performed. Later also occas. (with reference to a legal action): in pursuit of a such...
10. adhere, v. View full entry 1525
...Sc. Law. To cohabit with one's spouse, as a fulfilment of a legal obligation. Now hist....
11. adherence, n. View full entry 1563
...Sc. Law. The fulfilment or enforcement of a legal obligation to reside with one's spouse. Cf. adhere3a. Now hist....
12. adject, v. View full entry ?a1475
...trans. Chiefly Sc. Law. To add or append (a statement, condition, etc.). Also with clause or direct speech as object....
13. adjecting, n. View full entry a1649
...The action of adding or appending something; addition....
14. adjournal, n. View full entry 1489
...In full Act of Adjournal. Originally: a ruling of a criminal court, spec. one ordering a particular party to satisfy another within a specified time (now hist....
15. adjournal, n. View full entry 1529
...In full Books of Adjournal. A register of Acts of Adjournal (see sense 1a)....
16. adjudger, n. View full entry 1682
...Sc.Law. A person in whose favour an adjudication (adjudication3a) is granted....
17. adjudging, adj. View full entry 1732
...Sc. Law. Designating a creditor in whose favour an adjudication (adjudication3a) is granted. Cf. adjudger1. Now rare....
18. adjudication, n. View full entry 1621
...Sc. Law. An attachment of heritable estate as security, or in satisfaction of a debt....
19. adminicle, n. View full entry 1592
...A piece of supporting or corroborative evidence; something which, without forming complete proof in itself, helps to prove a point; (esp. in Sc. Law) a document tending to prove the...
20. adminiculate, v. View full entry ?1532
...trans. To help, support; (esp. in Sc. Law) to support by corroborative evidence, to show corroborative evidence for....
