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  • AD ULTIMAM VIM TERMINORUM
    To the most extended import of the terms; in a sense as universal as the terms will reach. 2 Eden, 54.
  • AD USUM ET COMMODUM
    To the use and benefit.
  • AD VALENTIAM
    To the value. See AD VALOREM.
  • AD VALOREM
    According to value. Duties are either ad valorem or specific; the former when the duty is laid in the form of a percentage on the value of the property ; the latter where it is imposed as a fixed sum on each article of a class without regard to its More...
  • AD VENTREM INSPICIENDUM
    To inspect the womb. A writ for the summoning of a jury of matrons to determine the question of pregnancy. Ad vim majorem vel ad casus fortuitns non tenetur quis, nisi sua culpa intervenerit. No one is held to answer for the effects of a superior force, or of accidents, More...
  • AD VITAM
    For life. Bract, fol. 136. In feodo, vel ad vitam; in fee, or for life. Id.
  • AD VITAM AUT CULPAM
    For life or until fault. This phrase describes the tenure of an office which is otherwise said to be held "for life or during good behavior." It is equivalent to quamdiu bene se gesscerit.
  • AD VOLUNTATEM
    At will. Bract fol. 270. Ad voluntatem domini, at the will of the lord.
  • AD WARACTUM
    To fallow. Bract fol. 228b. See WARACTUM.
  • ADAWLUT
    Corrupted from Adalat, justice, equity; a court of justice. The terms "Dewanny Adawlut" and "Foujdarry Adawlut" denote the civil and criminal courts of justice in India. Wharton.
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