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To the most extended import of the terms; in a sense as universal as the terms will reach. 2 Eden, 54. … [Read more...] about AD ULTIMAM VIM TERMINORUM

A habitual user of something, an alcoholic, a cocaine user, etc. The habitual user of any habit-forming drug such as a narcotic tranquiliser hallucinatory drug or amphetamines. … [Read more...] about ADDICT

Sufficient; proportionate; equally efficient. Adequate care. Such care as a man of ordinary prudence would himself take under similar circumstances to avoid accident; care proportionate to the risk to be incurred. Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Co., 8 Houst. (Del.) 529, 18 Atl. 818. Adequate cause. In criminal law. Adequate cause for the passion which reduces a homicide … [Read more...] about ADEQUATE

To the use and benefit. … [Read more...] about AD USUM ET COMMODUM

In the Roman law. The giving up to a creditor of his debtor's person by a magistrate; also the transfer of the debtor's goods to one who assumes his liabilities. Additio probat minoritatem. An addition [to a name] proves or shows minority or inferiority. 4 Inst. 80; Wing. Max. 211, max. 60. This maxim is applied by Lord Coke to courts, and terms of law; mmorttas being … [Read more...] about ADDICTIO