Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

AD INTERIM

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AD QUOD

AD INTERIM. In the meantime. An officer ad interim is one appointed to fill a temporary vacancy, or to discharge the du ties of the office during the absence or tem porary incapacity of its regular incumbent. AD JTJDICIUM. To judgment; to court. Adjudicium provocare; to summon to court; to commence an action; a term of the Roman law. Dig. 5,1,13,14. AD JUNGENDUM AUXILIUM. To Joining in aid; to join in aid. See AID PBAYEB. AD JURA REGIS. To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king's clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king's title. Reg. Writs, 61. AD LARGUM. At large; at liberty; free, or unconfined. Ire ad largum, to go at large. Plowd. 37. At large; giving details, or particulars; in extenso. A special verdict was formerly called a vei diet at large. Flowd. 92. AD LITEM. For the suit; for the pur poses of the suit; pending the suit. A guard ian ad litem is a guardian appointed to pros ecute or defend a suit on behalf of a party in capacitated by infancy or otherwise. AD LUCRANDUM VEL PERDEN DTJM. 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 MAJOREM CAUTELAM. For greater security. 2 How. State Tr. 1182. AD MANUM. At hand; ready for use. Et querens sectam habeat ad manum; and the plaintiff immediately have his suit ready. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 44, § 2. AD MEDIUM FILUM AQU.3S. the middle thread of the stream. To AD MEDIUM FILUM VIM. middle thiead of the way. To the AD MELIUS INQUIRENDUM. A writ directed to a coroner commanding him to hold a second inquest. See 45 Law J. Q. B. 711. AD MORDENDUM ASSUETUS. Ac customed to bite. Gro. Car. 254. A material averment in declarations for damage done by a dog to persons or animals. 1 Chit. PI. 388; 2 Chit. PI. 597. AM. DICT.LAW—8

AD NOCUMENTUM. Tothe nuisance, or annoyance. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 52, § 19. Ad nocumentum liberi tenementi sui, to the nuisance of his freehold. Formal words in the old assise of nuisance. 3 Bl. Comm. 221. Ad offlcium justiciariorum spectat, unicuique coram eis plaoitanti justitiam exhibere. It is the duty of justices to ad minister justice to every one pleading before them. 2 Inst. 451. AD OSTENDENDUM. Toshow. Formal words in old writs. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 65, § 12. AD OSTIUM ECCLESI2E. At the door of the church. One of the five species of dower formerly recognized by the English law. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 149; 2 Bl. Comm. 132. Ad proximum antecedens fiat relatio nisi impediatur sentential Relative words refer to the nearest antecedent, unless it be prevented by the context. Jenk. Cent. 180. AD QU^RIMONIAM. On complaint of. AD QUEM. To which. A term used in the computation of time or distance, as cor relative to a quo; denotes the end or termi nal point. See A Quo. Ad questiones facti non respondent judices; ad questiones legis non re spondent juratores. Judges do not an swer questions of fact; juries do not answer questions of law. 8 Coke, 308; Co. Litt. 295. AD QUOD CURIA CONCORDAVIT. To which the court agreed. Yearb. P. 20 Hen. VI. 27. AD QUOD DAMNUM. The name of a writ formerly issuing from the English chan cery, commanding the sheriff to make in quiry "to what damage" a specified act, if done, will tend. Ad quod damnum is a writ which ought to be sued before the king grants certain liberties, as a fair, market, or such like, which may be prejudicial to others, and thereby it should be inquired 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 another way as beneficial. Termes de la Ley. AD QUOD NON FUIT RESPONSUM. To which there was no answer. A phrase

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