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  • AD EXITUM
    At issue; at the end (of the pleadings.) Steph. PI. 24.
  • AD FACIENDUM
    To do. Co. Litt 204a. Ad faciendum, subjiciendum et recipiendum; to do, submit to, and receive. Ad faciendam juratamillam; to make up that jury. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 65, s12.
  • AD FACTUM PRAESTANDUM
    In Scotch law. A name descriptive of a class of obligations marked by unusual severity. A debtor who is under an obligation of this kind cannot claim the benefit of the act of grace, the privilege of sanctuary, or the cessio bonorum. Ersk. Inst lib. 3, tit 3, § 62.
  • AD FEODI FIRMAM
    To fee farm. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 50, f 30.
  • AD FIDEM
    In allegiance. 2 Kent Comm. 56. Subjects born ad fidem are those born in allegiance
  • AD FILUM AQUAE
    To the thread of the water; to the central line, or middle of the stream. Usque ad filum aquae, as far as the thread of the stream. Bract foL 208b; 235a. A phrase of frequent occurrence in modern law; of which ad medium filum aquae (q. v.) is another form.
  • AD FILUM VIAE
    To the middle of the way; to the central line of the road. Parker v. Inhabitants of Framingham, 8 Mete (Mass.) 260.
  • AD FINEM
    Abbreviated ad fin. To the end. It is used in citations to books, as a direction to read from the place designated to the end of the chapter, section, etc. Ad finem litis, at the end of the suit.
  • AD FIRMAM
    To farm. Derived from an old Saxon word denoting rent. Ad firmam noctis was a fine or penalty equal in amount to the estimated cost of entertaining the king for one night. Cowell. Ad feodi firmam, to fee farm. Spelman.
  • AD GAOLAS DELIBERANDAS
    To deliver the gaols; to empty the gaols. Bract fol. 109b. Ad gaolam deliberandam; to deliver the gaol; to make gaol delivery. Bract fol. 110b.
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