Ad Curiam

At a court 1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon to court

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Ad Custagia

At the costs. Toullier

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Ad Comparendum

To appear. Ad comparendum, et ad standum juri, to appear and to stand to the law, or abide the Jndg-ment of the court Cro. Jac. 67

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Ad Gompotum Reddendum

To

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Ad Captum Vulgi

Adapted to ttie common understanding

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Ad Communem Legem

At common law. The name of a writ of eutry (now

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Ad Barram

To the bar; at the bar. 8 How. State Tr. 112

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Ad Campi Partem

For a share of the field or land, for champert. Fleta. lib. 2, c; 36, I 4

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Ad Assisas Capiendas

To take assises; to take or hold the assises. Bract, fol. 110a; 3 Bl. Comm. 185. Ad asstsam capiendam; to take an assise. Bract, fol. 110b

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Ad Audiendum Et Terminan-Dum

To hear and determine. SL Westra. 2, cc. 29, 30

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Ad Aliud Examen

To another tribunal; belonging to another court, cognl-zance, or jurisdiction

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Ad Alium Diem

At another day. A common phrase in the old reports. Yearb

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Ad Abundantiorem Cautelam

L* Lat For more abundant caution. 2 How. State Tr. 1182. otherwise expressed, ad cautelam ex superabundant!. Id. 1163.

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Ad Admittendum Clericum

For the admitting of the clerk. A writ in the nature of an execution, commanding the bishop to admit hls clerk, upon the success of the latter in a quore impcdit.

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Actus

In the civil law. An act or action. Non tantum verbis, sed etiam actu; not only by words, but also by act Dig. 46, 8, 5

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Actuary

In English ecclesiastical law. A clerk that registers the acts and constitutions of the lower house of convoca-tion; or a registrar in a court chrlstlan

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Actum

Lat. A deed; something done

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Actual

Real; substantial; existing presently in act, having a valid objective existence as opposed to that which is mere-ly theoretical or possible

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Actuarius

In Roman law. .A notary or clerk, one who drew the acts or statutes, or who wrote in brief the public acts

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Acts Of Court

Legal memoranda made iu the admiralty courts in England, in the nature of pleas

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Acts Of Sederunt

In Scotch law. ordinances for regulating the forms of pro-ceeding, before the court of session, in the administration of Justice, made by the Judges, who have the power by virtue of a Scotch act of parliament passed in 1540. Ersk. Prin. | 14

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Actornay

In old Scotch law. An attorney. Skene

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Agtrix

Lat. A female actor; a fe-male plaintiff. Calvin

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Acton Burned, Statute Of

In

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Actor

In Roman law. one who act-ed for another; one who attended to an-otber's business; a manager or agent. A slnve who attended to, transacted, or sui>er-intended his master’s business or affairs, received and paid out moneys, and - kept accounts. Burrill

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