Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Adjudication

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​Adjudication, in Scottish Law, the name of that action by which a creditor attaches the heritable, i.e., the real, estate of his debtor, or his debtor's heir, in order to appropriate it to himself either in payment or security of his debt. The term is also applied to a proceeding of the same nature by which the holder of an heritable right, labouring under any defect in point of form, gets that defect supplied by decree of a court.

Adjudication in Bankruptcy, in English Law, is equivalent to the Scotch award of sequestration.

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