Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

AD CUSTUM

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the nature of an execution, commanding the bishop to admit his clerk, upon the success of the latter in a quare impedit. AD ALIUD EXAMEN. To another tribunal; belonging to another court, cogni zance, or jurisdiction. AD ALIUM DIEM. At another day. A common phrase in the old reports. Yearb. P. 7 Hen. VL 13. AD ASSISAS CAPIENDAS. To take assises; to take or hold the assises. Bract, fol. 110a; 3 Bl. Comm. 185. Ad ass is am capiendam; to take an assise. Bract, fol. 1106. AD AUDIENDUM ET TERMINAN DUM. To hear and determine. St-Westm. 2, cc. 29,30. AD BARRAM. To the bar; at the bar. 3 How. State Tr. 112. AD CAMPI PARTEM. For a share of the field or land, for champert. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 36, § 4. AD CAPTUM VULGL Adapted to the common understanding. AD COLLIGENDUM BONA DE FUNCTI. To collect the goods of the de ceased. Special letters of administration granted to one or more persons, authorizing them to collect and preserve the goods of the deceased, are so called. 2 Bl. Comm. 505; 2 Steph. Comm. 241. These are otherwise termed "letters ad colligendum," and the par ty to whom they are granted, a "collector." AD COMMUNEM LEGEM. At com mon law. The name of a writ of entry (now obsolete) brought by the reversioners after the death of the life tenant, for the recovery of lands wrongfully alienated by him. AD COMPARENDUM. To appear. Ad comparendum, et ad standum juri, to appear and to stand to the law, or abide the judg ment of the court. Cro. Jac. 67. AD COMPOTUM REDDENDUM. To render an account. St. Westm. 2, c. 11. AD CURIAM. At a court. 1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon t* court AD CUSTAGIA. At the costs. Tout Her; Cowell; Whishaw. AD CUSTUM. At the cost. lBl.Comm. 314.

Actns inoeptus, cujus perfeotlo pen det ex voluntate partium, revocari po test; si autem pendet ex voluntate ter ti8B person®, vel ex contingenti, revo cari non potest. An act already begun, the completion of which depends on the will of the parties, may be revoked; but if it de pend on the will of a third person, or on a contingency, it cannot be revoked. Bac. Max. reg. 20. Actus judiciarius eoram non judice irritus habetur, de ministerial! autem a quocunque provenit ratum esto. A ju dicial act by a judge without jurisdiction is void; but a ministerial act, from whomsoever proceeding, may be ratified. Lofft, 458. Actus legis nemini est damnosus. The act of the law is hurtful to no one. An act in law shall prejudice no man. 2 Inst. 287. Actus legis nemini facit injuriam. The act of the law does injury to no one. 5 Coke, 116. Actus legitimi non reoipiunt modum. Acts required to be done by law do not ad mit of qualification. Hob. 153; Branch, Prino. Actus me invito factus non est meus actus. An act done by me, against my will, is not my act. Branch, Frinc. Aotus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea. An act does not make [the doer of it] guilty, unless the mind be guilty; that is, unless the intention be criminal. 3 Inst. 107. The intent and the act must both concur to constitute the crime. Lord Kenyon, C. J. t 7 Term 514; Broom, Max. 306. Actus repugnus non potest in esse produci. A repugnant act cannot be brought into being, i. e., cannot be made effectual. Plowd. 355. Actus servi in iis quibus opera ejus communiter adhibita est, actus domini habetur. The act of a servant in those things in which he is usually employed, is considered the act of his master. Lofft, 227. AD. Lat. At; by; for; near; on account of; to; until; upon. AD ABUNDANTIOREM CAUTE LAM. L. Lat. For more abundant cau tion. 2 How. State Tr. 1182. Otherwise ex pressed, ad cautelam ex superabundanti. Id. 1163. AD ADMITTENDUM CLERICUM. For the admitting of the clerk. A writ in

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