AD COMPOTUM REDDENDUM. To
render an account. St. Westm. 2, « 11
Terms beginning with "A" (655 total)
AD FACIENDUM. Todo. Co. Litt
204a. Ad faciendum, subjiciendum et rectpicendum; to do, submit to, and receive. Ad faciendam juratamiliam ; to make up that jury. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 65, § 12.
AD FACTUM PRZSTANDUM. In
Scotch law. A name descriptive of a class of obligations marked by unusual severity. A debtor who is under an obligation of this kind cannot claim the benefit of the act of grace, the privilege of sanctuary, or the ceasi...
AD GAOLAS DELIBERANDAS. To
deliver the gaols; to empty the gaols. Bract. fol. 1090. Ad gaolam deliberandam; to deliver the gaol; to make gaol delivery. Bract. fol. 110d.
AD IDEM
AD IDEM. To the same point, or effect. Ad idem facit, it makes to or goes to estab-
AD JUNGENDUM AUXILIUM. To
joining in aid; to join in aid. See Arp
AD LUCRANDUM VEL PERDEN
DUM. For gain or loss. Emphatic words in the old warrants of attorney. Reg. Orig. 21, et seq. Sometimes expressed in English, “to lose and gain.” Plowd. 201.
AD MAJZJOREM OAUTELAM. [For
greater security. 2 How. State Tr. 1182.
AD MORDENDUM ASSUETUS. Ac
customed to bite. Cro. Car. 254. A material averment in declarations for' damage done by a dog to persons or animals. 1 Chit. PI. 888; 2 Chit. Pl. 597.
AD OURIAM. Ata court
1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon to court.
AD PIOS USUS
Lat. For pious (religious or charitable) uses or purposes. Used with reference to gifts and bequests.
AD QUOD . ' 39
whether it will be a prejudice to grant them, and to whom it will be prejudicial, and what prejudice will come thereby. There is also another writ of ad quod damnum, if any one will turn a common highway and lay out anot...
AD QUOD CURIA CONCORDAVIT
To which the court agreed. Yearb. P. 20
AD QUOD DAMNUM
AD MELIUS INQUIRENDUM. A writ directed to a coroner commanding him to hold a second inquest. See 45 Law J. Q B. 711.
AD QUOD NON FUIT RESPONSUM
To which there was no answer. A phrase used in the reports, where a point advanced in argument by one party was not denied by the other; or where a point or argument of counsel was not met or noticed by the court: or whe...
AD REPARATIONEM ET SUSTEN
TATIONEM. For repairing and keeping in suitable condition.
AD STUDENDUM ET ORANDUM. For
studying and praying; for the promotion of learning and religion. A phrase applied to eolleges and universities. 1 Bl. Comm. 467;
AD TERMINUM QUI PRETERIT
For a term which has passed. Words fn the Latin form of the writ of entry employed at common law to recover, on behalf of a landlord, possession of premises, from a tenant holding over after the expiration of the term fo...
AD ULTIMAM VIM TERMINORUM
To the most extended import of the terms;
AD VALOREM
AD VALOREM. According to value. Duties are either ad valorem or specific; the former when the duty is laid in the form of a percentage on the value of the property ; the latter where it is imposed as a fixed sum on each ...
AD VENTREM INSPICIENDUM. To
inspect the womb. A writ for the summoning of a jury of matrons to determine the question of pregnancy.
AD VITAM. For life. Bract
fol. 180. In feodo, vel ad vitam; in fee, or for life. Id.
AD VOLUNTATEM 33
AD VOLUNTATEM. At will. Bract. fol. 27a. Ad voluntatem domini, at the will of the lord.
Adams (C. C.) 59 Fed
247.—First of exch . Where a set of bills of exchange is drawn in duplicate or triplicate, for greater safety in their transmission, all being of the same tenor, and the intention being that the acceptance and payment ...
Adams v. Yazoo & M. V. R. Co., 77 Miss
194 24 South. 200, 211, 60 L. R. A. 33, it is said that the term “amalgamation” of corporations is used in the English cases in the sense of what is usually known in the United States as “merger,” meaning the abs...
Adams vy. Adams, 183 Mo
396, 82 S. W. 66. —Election judges. In English law. Judges of the high court selected in pursuance of 31 & 32 Vict. c. 125, § 11, and Jud. Act 1873, § 38, for the trial of election petitions —Election petitions. Pe...
Adams y. Storey, 1 Paine, 79, 1 Fed. Cas
142; Ktnzler v. Kohaus, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 317.
Adams, 10 How
308, 13 L. Ed. 417. —Jactus lapilli. The throwing down of a stone. One of the modes, under the civil Jaw, of interrupting prescription. re one per son was building on another’s ground, and in this way acquiring a rig...
Adams, 24 Conn
39; Appeal of Huntington, 73
Adams, 47 La. Ann
68, 16 South. 652; Gimbel v. Gomprecht, 89 Tex. 497, 35 8. W. 470.
Adams, 82 Miss 204, 33 South
944: Chamberlain v. Putnam, 10 S. D. 860, 73 N. W. 201: People v. Gilroy, 82 Hun, 500, 31 N. ¥. Supp. 776; Hinds v. Marmolejo. 60 Cal. 231; Straus v. Wanamaker, 175 Pa. 218, 34
ADATU
L. Lat. From the date. Haths v. Ash, 2 Salk. 413. <A die datas,-from the day of the date. Id.; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p: 248, § 1801; Hatter v. Ash, 1 Ld. Raym. %.
ADDICERE
lIat. In the civil law. To adjudge or condemn; to assign, allot, or deliver; to sell. In the Roman law, addico was one of the three words used to express the extent of the civil jurisdiction of the preetors.
Addis
(or Add. Pa.). Addison’s (Pennsylvania County Court) Reports.
ADEMPTIO
story on an old building is not an addition. Updike v. Skillman, 27 N. J. Law, 132. Lat. In the civil law. A revocation of a legacy; an ademption. Inst. 2, 21, pr. Where it was expressly transferred from one person to a...
ADEMPTION
ADEMPTION. ‘he revocation, recalling, or cancellation of a legacy, accurding to the apparent intention of the testator, implied by the law from acts done by him in his life, though such acts do not amount to an ex- . p...
ADEO
Lat. So, as. Adeo plene et integre, as fully and entirely. 10 Coke, 66.
ADIEU
L. Fr. Without day. A common term in the Year Books, implying final dismissal from court.
ADJACENT
ADJOURN. To put off; defer; postpone. To postpone action of a convened court or body until another time specified, or indefinitely, the latter being usually called to adjourn sine die. Bispham v. Tucker, 2 N. J. Law, 253...
ADJECTIVE LAW
County, 108 Iowa, 232, 78 N. W. 824; Hennessy v. Douglas County, 99 Wis. 129, 74 N. W. 983; Yard v. Ocean Beach Ass’n, 49 N.
ADJOURNATUR. IL
Lat. It is adjourned. A word with which the old reports very frequently conclude a case. 1 Ld. Raym. 602; 1 Show. 7; 1 Leon. 88.
ADJUDICATION
ADJOURNED TERM. In practice. A continuance, by adjournment, of a regular term. Harris v. Gest, 4 Ohio St. 473; Kingsley v. Bagby, 2 Kan. App. 23, 41 Pac. 991. Distinguished from an “additional term,” which is a disti...
ADJUNCTUM ACCESSORIUM. An ac
cessory or appurtenance.
ADMINICULAR 37
bery,” (é e€., committed to accomplish it.) The Marianna Flora, 3 Mason, 121, Fed. Cas.
ADMINIOCULUM
Lat. An adminicle; a prop or support; an accessory thing. An aid or support to something else, whether a right or the evidence of one. It is principally used to designate evidence adduced in aid or support of. other evid...
ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES
The management and settlement -of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator who has no executor, performed under the supervision of a court, by a person duly qualified and legally appointed, and nsually involving (1)...
ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES 38
during the minority of such executor, and until he shall attain his lawful age to act.
ADMINISTRAVIT
Lat. He has administered. Used in the phrase plene adminfstravit, which is the name of a plea by an executor or administrator to the effect that he has “fully adininistered” (lawfully disposed of) all the assets of t...
ADMIRAL
son, have been granted by the proper court. He resembles an executor, but, being appointed by the court, and not by the deceased, he has to give security for the due administration of the estate, by entering into a bond ...
Admiral. Ord
de la Mar. liv. 1, tit. 1, § 1.