Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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AD RATIONEM PONERE

AD VITAM

to colleges and universities. 1 BI Comm. 467; T. Raym. 101. AD TERMINUM ANNORUM. For • term of years. AD TERMINUM QUI PRETERIT, For a term which has passed. Words in th# Latin form of the writ of entry employed as. common law to recover, on behalf of a land* lord, possession of premises, from a tenant holding over after the expiration of the term for which they were demised. See Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 201. Ad tristem partem strenua est sus picio. Suspicion lies heavy on the unfortu nate side. AD TUNC ET IBIDEM. In pleading. The Latin name of that clause of an indict ment containing the statement of the subject matter "then and there being found." AD ULTIMAM VIM TERMINO RUM. To the most extended import of the terms; in a sense as universal as the terms will reach. 2 Eden, 54. AD USUM ET COMMODUM. To the use and benefit. AD VALENTIAM. To the value. See AD VALOREM. AD VALOREM. According to value. Duties are either ad valorem or specific; the former when the duty is laid iu the form of a percentage on the value of the property; the latter where it is imposed as a fixed sum on each article of a class without regard to its value. The term ad valorem tax is as well defined and fixed as any other used in political econ omy or legislation, and simply means a tax or duty upon the value of the article or thing subject to taxation. 24 Miss. 501. AD VENTREM INSPICIENDUM. To inspect the womb. A writ for the summon ing of a jury of matrons to determine the question of pregnancy. Ad vim majorem vel ad casus fortui tus non tenetur quis, nisi sua oulpa zn terveuerit. No one is held to answer for the effects of a superior force, or of accidents, unless his own fault has contributed. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 72, § 16. AD VITAM. For life. Bract fol. 136. In feodo, vel ad vitam; in fee, or for life. Id.

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 where an objection was met by the court, and not replied to by the counsel who raised it. 3 Coke, 9; 4 Coke, 40. AD RATIONEM PONERE. A tech nical expression in the old records of the Ex chequer, signifying, to put to the bar and in terrogate as to a charge made; to arraign on a trial. AD RECOGNOSCENDTTM. To recog nize. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 65, § 12. Formal words in old writs. Ad recte docendum oportet, primum inquirere nomina, quia rerum cognitio a nominibus rerum dependet. In order rightly to comprehend a thing, inquire first into the names, for a right knowledge of things depends upon their names. Co. Litt. 68. AD REPARATIONEM ET SUSTEN TATIONEM. For repairing and keeping in suitable condition. AD RESPONDENDUM. For answer ing; to make answer; words used in certain writs employed for bringing a person before the court to make answer in defense in a pro ceeding. Thus there is a capias ad respon dendum, q. v.; also a habeas corpus ad re spondendum. AD SATISFACIENDUM. To satisfy. The emphatic words of the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, which requires the sheriff to take the person of the defendant to satisfy the plaintiff's claim. AD SECTAM. At the suit of. Com monly abbreviated to ads. Used in entering and indexing the names of eases, where it is desired that the name of the defendant should come first. Thus, "B. ads. A." indicates that B. is defendant in an action brought by A., and the title so written would be an in version of the more usual form "A. v. B." An affidavit of merits, on the same paper with the pleas, by a defendant, entitled " C. D. ads. A. B.," is the same in law as if en titled "A. B. t>. C. D., M and is pioperly en titled, and it is error to strike the pleas from the files as for want of a sufficient affidavit. rJ6 ill. 11. AD STUDENDUM ET ORANDUM. for studying and praying; for the promotion of learning and religion. A phrase applied

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