ADEQUATE

A Law Dictionary · 1910 · p. 2
Sufficient; proportion~te; equally efficient. -Adequate care. Such care as a.man of ordinary prudence would himself take under similar circumstances to avoid accident; care proportionate to the risk to be incurred. Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Qo., 8 Houst. (Del.) 529, 18 AtL 818.-Adequate cause, In criminal law. Adequate cause for the pa ion whicli reduces a homicide committed under its influence from the grade of murder to manslaughter, means such cause as would commonly produce e. degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror, in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection. Insulting words or gestures, or an a ault and battery so slight as to show no intention to inflict pa.in or injury, or an injury to property unaccompanied by violence are not adequate causes. Gardner v. State, 40 Tex. Or. R. 19, 48 S. W. 170; Williams v. State, 7 Tex. App. 396; Boyett v. State, 2 Tex. App. 100.~Adequate compensation (to be awardw. to one whose property is taken for public use under the power ·of eminent domain) means the full and just value of the property, payable in money. Buffalo, etc., R. Co. v. Ferris, 26 Tex. 588.-Adeqnate consideration. One which is equal, or reasonably proportioned, to the value of that for which it is given. 1 Story, E}q. Jur. ~§ 244-247. An adequate consideration ls one which is not so disproportionate as to shock our sense of that morality and fair dealing which should always characterize transactions lletween man and man. IDaton v. Patters on, 2 Stew. & P. (Ala.) 9, 19.-Adeqnate remedy, One vested in the complainant, to which he may at all times resort at his own option, fully and freely, without let or hindrance. Wheeler v. Bedford, 54 C-Onn. 244, 7 At!. 22. A remedy which is plain and complete and aa/ractical and efficient to the ends of justice an · its prompt administration as the remedy In eqJ!i_ty. Keplinger v. Woolsey, 4 Neb. (Unof.) 282, 93 N. W. 1008. /, A:DESSE., ·tn the civil law. To be present; the opposite,of abe e. Calvin.:, ADl'EBBUIIJJl'Afl'iO. In the civil·, law. The weldiq tegeth:er of Iron•,a 1peelea. of· [s. 40]
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