A formal permission or certificate allowing someone to practice law, especially after passing the bar exam; an official admission to the bar.
Direct Latin from admittere in third-person singular passive subjunctive form ('let him/her be admitted'). This is a technical legal term that preserves the Latin form rather than translating it into English.
Admittatur is pure Latin locked into English legal language—it's literally 'let them be admitted' in Latin, and American courts still use this term to formally admit lawyers to practice. It's a fossil word showing how law holds onto Latin phrases!
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