adjudicative

A public agency can just as easily extort unfair fees legislatively from a class of property owners as it can adjudicatively from a single property owner.

He argued that certain administrative agencies, such as the War Manpower Commission, the Office of Price Administration, and the War Production Board, could perform their functions effectively and precisely because they did not attempt to "act adjudicatively," while the FCC, for instance, suffered from its attempt to provide an adjudicative procedure in the awarding of television and radio licenses, a task that Fuller thought was ultimately not susceptible to reasoned solution.