adjudgern.

1682 in J. Gilmour & D. Falconer Coll. Decisions Lords of Council (1701) ii. 10 It was alledged for the adjudger, that he ought to be preferred, because..adjudications come in place of comprisings.

1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. iii. ii. 39 Adjudication is a Decreet of the Lords of Session, adjudging and appropriating a Person's Lands to belong to his creditor, who is called the Adjudger, for Payment or Performance.

1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. II. iii. 414 By the usage of Scotland, the claim of recompence is, in the case of repairing an house by a liferenter or adjudger, restricted to such expences as are profitable to the owner.

1833 Decisions Court of Session 581 It is also clear that all personal privileges do not pass to the adjudger.

1898 J. G. Stewart Treat. Law Diligence vii. 164 But between an adjudger and a heritable creditor there seems this difference. An adjudger has no right to rents bygone at the date of his decree.

1908 J. Craigie & J. Bartholomew Elem. Conveyancing ii. vi. 335 The adjudger should treat the decree in his favour as equivalent to an assignation of an unrecorded conveyance.

1821 W. Scott Let. 6 Apr. in H. Addington Life & Corr. (1847) III. App. 486 All such will thrust their efforts on the proposed adjudgers of the prizes.

1833 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 56/1 The fabulous adjudgers of future punishments.

1854 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 23 Sept. 343/2 The adjudgers of the prizes at such an exhibition would have a difficult office of it.

1902 Sat. Rev. 1 Mar. 274/1 Who is to ensure the capacity of the rulers, and still more of the adjudgers of excellence and of the adjusters of standards?

1977 Jrnl. Afr. Law 21 19 An ever-increasing involvement of the laymen in the work of the courts..as adjudgers of title and wrong in civil cases.