ADJUDICATION, in Scots law, the name of that action by which a creditor attaches the heritable estate of his debtor, or his debtor's heir, in order to appropriate it to himself, either in payment or security of his debt; or, that action by which the holder of an heritable right, labouring under any defect in point of form, may supply that defect. See LAW, title, Comprisings and adjudications.