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Home Dictionary Name: ad largumAd largum
Ad largum (at large), used in the following and other expressions: title at large, common at large, assize at large, verdict at large, to vouch at large, etc....
Ire ad largum
Ire ad largum (to go at large; to escape; to be set at liberty)....
ad hoc
ad hoc [Latin, for this] : for the particular end or case at hand without consideration of wider application adj 1 : concerned with a particular end or purpose [an ad hoc investigating committee] 2 : formed or used for specific or immediate problems or needs [ad hoc solutions] ...
Ad questiones facti non respondent judices; ad questiones legis non respondent juratores
Ad questiones facti non respondent judices; ad questiones legis non respondent juratores. Co. Litt. 295.-(Judges do not answer questions of fact; juris do not answer questions of law). See Broom's Leg. Max. Since the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, and now by R. S. C. Ord. XXXVI., a judge in a civil action may answer questions of fact without a jury....
Ad valorem
Ad valorem, a term used in speaking of the duties or customs paid on certain goods (see e.g. (English) Import Duties Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 8); the duties on some Articles are paid by the number, weight, measure, tale, etc., and those on others are paid ad valorem--that is, according to their value. The term is used also of stamp duties, which, in many cases--e.g., in the case of an award, a bill of exchange, a conveyance or transfer, and a lease--are payable under the Stamp Act, 1891, according to the value of the subject-matter of the particular instruments or writings. See STAMP DUTIES.The phrase 'ad valorem' appearing in the column 'rate of duty' in the Schedule appended to the Act refers to the value of the excisable goods and, therefore, it will have to be worked out by applying the formula as laid down in s. 4(4)(d) of the Central Excise Act, State of Goa v. Calfox Laboratories, (2004) 9 SCC 83 (98): AIR 2004 SC 45. [Central Excise Act, 1944, s. 4(4)(d)]...
Bannire ad placita, ad molendinum
Bannire ad placita, ad molendinum, to summon tenants to serve at the lord's courts, to bring corn to be ground at his mill....
Carcer ad homines custodiendos, non ad puniendos, dari debet
Carcer ad homines custodiendos, non ad puniendos, dari debet [Lat.], A prison should be assigned to the custody, not the punishment of persons....
Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos, ormore succinctly, Cujus est solum ejus est altum
Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos, ormore succinctly, Cujus est solum ejus est altum Co. Litt. 4.-(Whose is the soil, his it is even to heaven and to the middle of the earth.) Therefore a man whose land is overhung by his neighbour's treemay cut downthe overhanging boughs, Lemmon v. Webb, 1895 AC 1; and a man who parts with his land, but ishes to retain the minerals beneath it, must expressly reserve them, unless he sell to a railway company, which by s. 77 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, does not take mines unless the conveyance of the land expressly grants them. As to action for trespass and other torts by aircraft, see the (English) Air Navigation Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 80), s. 9....
Ut pana ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat
Ut pana ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat (4 Inst.6), though few are punished, the fear of punishment affects all....
Vim vi repellere licet, modo fiat moderamine inculpat' tutel'; non ad sumendam vindictam, sed ad propulsandam injuriam
Vim vi repellere licet, modo fiat moderamine inculpat' tutel'; non ad sumendam vindictam, sed ad propulsandam injuriam. Co. Litt. 162.-(It is lawful to repel force by force, so as it be done with the moderation of blameless defence; not to take revenge, but to repel injury.)...
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