ADMISSION. In practice, the act by which attorneys and counsellors become recog nized as officers of the court and are allowed to practise.
In corporations or companies, the act of a corporation or company by which an individual acquires the right of a member of such cor poration or company. In trading and joint stock companies no vote of admission is requi site, for any person who owns stock therein, either by original subscription or conveyance, is in general entitled to, and cannot be refused, the rights and privileges of a member. Nothing more can be required of a person demanding a transfer on the books than that he prove to the corporation his right to the stock In evidence, a concession or voluntary ac knowledgment made by a party of the exist ence of certain things or conditions, or of the truth of certain statements. The admissions or declarations of a party in respect to the sub ject-matter of an action at law or suit in equity may always be given in evidence against him. As distinguished from confessions, the term is applied to civil transactions, and to matters of fact in criminal cases where there is no crim inal intent. Express or direct admissions are those which are made in direct terms. Inci dental admissions are those made in some other connection or involved in the admission of some other fact, Implied admissions are those which result from some act or failure to act of the party. To be considered as evidence, admissions may be made by a party to the record or one identified in interest with him, but not where the party of record is only a nominal party and has no active interest in the action.
ADOBE, 1-do'ba (Sp., from adobar, to daub or plaster), colloquially uclobie°: sun dried bricks, from any native clays; especially i those made in the arid western and southwest ern regions of the United States, as in the Great Basin, Arizona, New Mexico, etc., by molding the bricks and then turning the sides alternately to the sun day by day for a week or two, stack ing up for use when sufficiently baked. These, however, are the resource only of people in an inferior state of civilization, as the rain soon dissolves them into streams of mud; hence also they are impossible at all save where rain is very infrequent. The sizes are usually two, 18 x 9 x 4 and 16 x 12 x 4, the larger ones in the best building used as headers (the greatest length crosswise to the wall) and the others as stretchers (lengthwise). The earliest building material in Assyria and Egypt was adobe, usu ally strengthened with straw, and it is still much used in Japan and China. Adobe soils are clay. soils very plastic when wet, but too hard for cultivation when dry; they are light ened by plowing in sand or sandy loam and are often very fertile.