This is what is commonly meant when the word adjudication is used alone. It is an action for transferring to a personal creditor the real estate of the debtor in satisfaction of the debt —as by a writ of elegit in England. It can proceed only on an ascertained and past-due debt. Adjudications commenced within twenty days of the commencement of the first adjudication are conjoined with it, so as to share in its benefits. Those not so commenced must be separately prosecuted ; but, if decree is obtained within a year of the first decree, they are entitled to share equally with the first and with each other, called rwnhing pari passu. The lands are redeemable by the debtor within three years, called "the legal"-or within forty years, if the adjudger has not meanwhile obtained decree of foreclosure, called "decree of declarator of the expiry of the legal."