Fit; suitable; appropriate. Apt time. Apt time sometimes depends upon lapse of time; as, where a thing is required to be done at the first term, or within a given time, it cannot be done afterwards. But the phrase more usually refers to the order of proceedings, as fit or suitable. Pugh v. York, 74 N. C. 383 Apt words. Words proper to produce the legal effect for which they are intended; sound technical phrases.