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A quo






A quo

A Latin phrases which signifies from which; example, in the computation of time, the day a quo is not to be counted, but the day ad quem is always included.

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Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.



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A mensa et thoro
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A prendre
French.To take, to seize, in contracts, as profits a prendre or a right to take something out of the soil.

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A rendre
French. To render, to yield, contracts. Profits a rendre; under this term are comprehended rents and services.

A verbis legis non est recedendum
From the words of the law let there be no departing.

A vinculo matrimonii
From the bond of marriage. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one of the parties was legally married to a person who was then living; impotence, and the like adultery cruelty and malicious desertion for two years or more. In New York a sentence of imprisonment for life is also a ground for a divorce a vinculo. When the marriage is dissolved a vinculo, the parties may marry again but when the cause is adultery, the guilty party cannot marry his or her paramour.

Ab extra
(United Kingdom) From outside.

Ab initio
From the beginning

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