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  • AD JUDICIUM
    To judgment; to court. Ad judicium provocare; to summon to court; to commence an action; a term of the Roman law. Dig. 5, 1, 13, 14.
  • AD JUNGENDUM AUXILIUM
    To joining in aid; to join in aid. See AID PRAYER.
  • AD JURA REGIS
    To the lights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king's clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king's title. Reg. Writs, 61.
  • AD LARGUM
    At large; at liberty; free, or unconfined. Ire ad largum. to go at large. Plowd. 37. At large; giving details, or particulars; in extenso. A special verdict was formerly called a verdict at large. Plowd. 92
  • AD LITEM
    For the suit; for the purposes of the suit; pending the suit. A guardian ad litem is a guardian appointed to prosecute or defend a suit on behalf of a party incapacitated by infancy or otherwise.
  • AD LUCRANDUM VEL PERDENDUM
    For gain or loss. Emphatic words in the old warrants of attorney. Reg. Orig. 21, et seq. Sometimes expressed in English, "to lose and gain." Plowd. 201.
  • AD MAJOREM CAUTELAM
    For greater security. 2 How. State Tr. 1182.
  • AD MANUM
    At hand; ready for use. Et querens sectum habeat ad manum; and the plaintiff immediately have his suit ready. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 44, | 2.
  • AD MEDIUM FILUM AQUA
    To the middle thread of the stream.
  • AD MEDIUM FILUM VIAE
    To the middle thread of the way.
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