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AD ALIUD EXAMEN

To another tribunal; belonging to another court, cognizance, or jurisdiction.

AD DIEM

At a day; at the day. Townsh. Pi. 23. Ad certum diem, at a certain day. 2 Strange, 747. Solvit ad diem; lie paid at or on the day. 1 Chit. Pi.

AD HOC

For this; for this special purpose. An attorney ad hoc, or a guardian or curator ad hoc, is one appointed for a special purpose, generally to represent the client or infant in

AD MANUM

At hand; ready for use. Et querens sectam halicat ad manum; and the plaintiff immediately have his suit ready. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 44,

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

AD VENTREM INSPICIENDUM

To Inspect the womb. A writ for the summoning of a jury of matrons to determine the question of pregnancy.

ADELING, OR ATHELING

Noble; excellent. A title of honor among the Anglo- Saxons, properly belonging to the king’s children. Spelman.

ADIT

In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage into a mine; the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; a horizontal excavation in

ADMINISTRATRIX

A female who administers, or to whom letters of administration have been granted.

ADOPT

To accept, appropriate, choose, or select; to make that one’s own (property or act) which was not so originally. To adopt a route for the transportation of the mail means to take

ADULTER

Lat. One who corrupts; one who seduces another man’s wife. Adulter solidorum. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter. Calvin.

ADVENTURE, BILL OF

In mercantile law. A writing signed by a merchant, stating that the property in goods shipped in his name belongs to another, to the adventure or chance of which the person so

ADVOCATIONE DECIMARUM

A writ which lay for tithes, demanding the fourth part or upwards, that belonged to any church.

AGARDER

L. Fr. To award, adjudge, or determine; to sentence, or condemn.

AGGRIEVED

Having suffered loss or injury; damnified; Injured.

AGNATES

In the law of descents. Relations by the father. This word is used in the Scotch law, and by some writers as an English word, corresponding with the Latin agnati, (q. v.)

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