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Addendum






Addendum

An attachment to a written document. For example, affidavits may be addendums to a petition as a petition may be an addendum to a writ.

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Attachment
Crim. law, practice. A writ requiring a sheriff to apprehend a particular person, who has been guilty of. a contempt of court, and to bring the offender before the court.

Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.

Petition
An instrument of writing or printing containing a prayer from the person presenting it, called the petitioner, to the body or person to whom it is presented, for the redress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, which the latter has the right to give.

Addendum
An attachment to a written document. For example, affidavits may be addendums to a petition as a petition may be an addendum to a writ.

Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).



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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.

Ad terminum qui preteriit
The name of a writ of entry which lay for thelessor or his heirs, when a lease had been made of lands or tenements, forterm of life or years, and, after the term had expired, the lands were with held from the lessor by the tenant, or other person possessing the same.

Ad tunc et ibidem
That part of an indictment, where it is stated that theobject-matter of the crime or offence" then and there being found," is technically so called.

Ad valorem
According to the value. This Latin term is used in commerce inreference to certain duties, called ad valorem duties, which are levied on commodities at certain rates per centum on their value.

Ad vitam aut culpam
An office to be so held as to determine only by thedeath or delinquency of the possessor; in other words it is held quam diu sebenegesserit.

Addendum

Additional legacy
An additional legacy is one which is given by a codicil, besides one before given by the will; or it is an increase by a codicil of a legacy before given by the will. An additional legacy is generally subject to the same qualities and conditions as the original legacy.

Additionales
Contracts. Additional terms or propositions to be added to a former agreement.

Additur
An increase by a judge in the amount of damages awarded by a jury.

Address
Chan. Pleading. That part of a bill which contains the appropriate andtechnical description of the court where the plaintiff seeks his remedy.

Ademption
Wills. The act of adeeming, which is revoking a gift mentioned in a will by destruction, or selling or giving away the gift before death.

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