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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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ADMINICLE, n. Sc. law: Collateral proof. “Any document or writing tending to prove the existence and tenor of a lost deed, which if it existed would have been full evidence.” (N.E.D.)Sc. 1690 Acts of Parl. of Scot. (1844) IX. 170:
Most parts of which writts were not registrat, and . . . he had but few or no adminicles.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian II. xi. 250:
Only as adminicles of testimony, tending to corroborate what is considered as legal and proper evidence.Edb. c. 1896 Robert Louis Stevenson in Andrew Noble From the Clyde to California (1985) 96:
Some hated the church because they disagreed with it; some hated Lord Beaconsfield because of war and taxes; all hate the masters, possibly with reason. But these were but adminicles; they were not the root of the matter; ...