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Ad interim
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Ad interimIn the mean time. An officer is sometimes appointed ad interim,when the principal officer is absent, or for some cause incapable of acting for the time.
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Mean
This word is sometimes used for mesne.
Time
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.
Principal
1) This word has several meanings. It is used in opposition to accessary, to show the degree of crime committed by two persons; thus, we say, the principal is more guilty than the accessary after the fact. 2) Contracts. One who, being competent to contract, and who is sui juris, employs another to do any act for his own benefit, or on his own account. 3) Criminal law. A principal is one who is the actor in the commission of a crime.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
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Ad infinitum
(United Kingdom) Forever, without limit, to infinity.
Ad inquirendum
Practice. A judicial writ, commanding inquiry to be made of any thing relating to a cause depending in court.
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Ad damnum
Pleading. To the damage. In all personal and mixed actions, withthe exception of actions of debt qui tam, where the plaintiff has sustained no damages, the declaration concludes ad damnum.
Ad diem
At the day, as a plea of payment ad diem, on the day when the moneybecame due.
Ad hoc
( United Kingdom) For this purpose.
Ad infinitum
(United Kingdom) Forever, without limit, to infinity.
Ad inquirendum
Practice. A judicial writ, commanding inquiry to be made of any thing relating to a cause depending in court.
Ad interim
Ad largum
At large; as, title at large, assize at large.
Ad litem
In litem. For a suit; to the suit.
Ad quem
A Latin expression which signifies to which, in the computation of time or distance, as the day ad quem.
Ad quod damnum
To what damage. A writ, at common law, by which the sheriff was to inquire by a jury what damage it would be to the sovereign, or to a subject, to grant a fair, market, highway, or other like franchise.
Ad sectam
At the suit of, commonly abbreviated ads. It is usual in filingpleas, and other papers, for a defendant, instead of putting the name of the plaintiff first.
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Mean
This word is sometimes used for mesne.
Time
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.
Principal
1) This word has several meanings. It is used in opposition to accessary, to show the degree of crime committed by two persons; thus, we say, the principal is more guilty than the accessary after the fact. 2) Contracts. One who, being competent to contract, and who is sui juris, employs another to do any act for his own benefit, or on his own account. 3) Criminal law. A principal is one who is the actor in the commission of a crime.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
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Ad infinitum
(United Kingdom) Forever, without limit, to infinity.
Ad inquirendum
Practice. A judicial writ, commanding inquiry to be made of any thing relating to a cause depending in court.
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Ad damnum
Pleading. To the damage. In all personal and mixed actions, withthe exception of actions of debt qui tam, where the plaintiff has sustained no damages, the declaration concludes ad damnum.
Ad diem
At the day, as a plea of payment ad diem, on the day when the moneybecame due.
Ad hoc
( United Kingdom) For this purpose.
Ad infinitum
(United Kingdom) Forever, without limit, to infinity.
Ad inquirendum
Practice. A judicial writ, commanding inquiry to be made of any thing relating to a cause depending in court.
Ad interim
Ad largum
At large; as, title at large, assize at large.
Ad litem
In litem. For a suit; to the suit.
Ad quem
A Latin expression which signifies to which, in the computation of time or distance, as the day ad quem.
Ad quod damnum
To what damage. A writ, at common law, by which the sheriff was to inquire by a jury what damage it would be to the sovereign, or to a subject, to grant a fair, market, highway, or other like franchise.
Ad sectam
At the suit of, commonly abbreviated ads. It is usual in filingpleas, and other papers, for a defendant, instead of putting the name of the plaintiff first.
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