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We say an object is finite if it has a finite number of<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-subobjects. In this paper, we show that in finitary<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-adhesive categories we not only have all the well-known HLR properties of weak adhesive HLR categories, which are already valid for<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-adhesive categories, but also all the additional HLR requirements needed to prove classical results including the Local Church-Rosser, Parallelism, Concurrency, Embedding, Extension and Local Confluence Theorems, where the last of these is based on critical pairs. More precisely, we are able to show that finitary<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-adhesive categories have a unique<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline3\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{E}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>factorisation and initial pushouts, and the existence of an<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-initial object implies we also have finite coproducts and a unique<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline3\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{E}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>\u2032-<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>pair factorisation. Moreover, we can show that the finitary restriction of each<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-adhesive category is a finitary<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-adhesive category, and finitarity is preserved under functor and comma category constructions based on<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-adhesive categories. This means that all the classical results are also valid for corresponding finitary<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" mime-subtype=\"gif\" xlink:type=\"simple\" xlink:href=\"S0960129512000321_inline2\" \/><jats:tex-math>$\\mathcal{M}$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-adhesive transformation systems including several kinds of finitary graph and Petri net transformation systems. 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