Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

AD VITAM AUT CULPAM

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ADEEM

AD VITAM ATTT CULPAM. For life or until fault. This phrase describes the tenure of an office which is otherwise said to be held " for life or during good behavior." It is equivalent to quamdiu bene se gesserit. AD VOLUNTATEM. At will. Bract. fol. 27a. Ad voluntatem domini, at the will of the lord. AD WARACTUM. To fallow. Bract, fol. 2286. See WARACTUM. ADAWLXJT. Corrupted from Adalat, justice, equity; a court of justice. Theterms "Dewanny Adawlut" and "Foujdarry Adaw lut" denote the civil and criminal courts of justice in India. Wharton. ADCORDABILIS DENARII. Money paid by a vassal to his lord upon the selling or exchanging of a feud. Enc. Lond. ADDICERE. Lat. 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 praetors. ADDICTIO. In the Roman law. The giving up to a creditor of his debtor's peison by a magistrate; also the transfer of the debtor's goods to one who assumes his liabil ities. Additio probat minoritatem. An ad dition [to a name] proves or shows minority or inferiority. 4 Inst. 80; Wing. Max. 211, max. 60. This maxim is applied by Lord Coke to courts, and terms of law; minoritas being understood in the sense of difference, inferiority, or qualification. Thus, the style of the king's bench is coram rege, and the style of the court of chancery is coram dom ino rege in cancellaria; the addition show ing the difference. 4 Inst. 80. By the word "fee" is intended fee-simple, fee-tail not being intended by it, unless there be added to it the addition of the word "tail." 2 Bl. Comm. 106; Litt. § 1. ADDITION. Whatever is added to a man's name by way of title or description, as additions of mystery, place, or degree. Co well. In English law, there are four kinds of ad ditions, —additions of estate, such as yeoman, gentleman, esquire; additions of degree, or names of dignity, as knight, earl, marquis, duke; additions of trade, mystery, or occupa tion, as scrivener, painter, mason, carpenter;

and additions of place of residence, as Lon don, Chester, etc. The only additions recog nized in American law are those of mystery and residence. In the law of liens. Within the mean ing of the mechanic's lien law, an "addition" to a building must be a lateral addition. It must occupy ground without the limits of the building to which it constitutes an addition, so that the lien shall be upon the building formed by the addition and the land upon which it stands. An alteration in a former building, by adding to its height, or to its depth, or to the extent of its interior accom modations, is merely an "alteration," and not an "addition." Putting a new story on an old building is not an addition. 27 N. J. Law, 132. In French law. A supplementary pro cess to obtain additional information. Guyot, Repert. ADDITIONAL. This term embraces the idea of joining or uniting one thing to an other, so as thereby to form one aggregate. Thus, "additional security" imports a secu rity, which, united with or joined to the former one, is deemed to make it, as an ag gregate, sufficient as a security fiom the be ginning. 53 Miss. 626. ADDITIONALES. In the law of con tracts. Additional terms or propositions to be added to a former agreement. ADDONE, Addonne. L. Fr. Given to. Kelham. ADDRESS. That part of a bill in equity wherein is given the appropriate and technic al description of the court in which the bill is filed. The word is sometimes used as descriptive of a formal document, embodying a request, presented to the governor of a state by one or both branches of the legislative body, desir ing him to perform some executive act. A place of business or residence. ADDUCED. "The word 'adduced' is broader in its signification than the word •offered,' and, looking to the whole state ment m relation to the evidence below, we think it sufficiently appears that all of the evidence is in the record." 106 Ind. 84,5 N. E. Rep. 882. ADEEM. To take away, recall, or re voke. To satisfy a legacy by some gift or substituted disposition, made by the testator, in advance. See ADEMPTION.

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