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Used in criminal law, where there is an adequate establishment of a cause, such as being able to establish an affirmative defense. In criminal law. Adequate cause for the passion which reduces a homicide committed under its influence from the grade of murder to manslaughter means such cause as would commonly produce a degree of anger rage resentment or terror in a person of … [Read more...] about ADEQUATE CAUSE

To which there was no answer. A phrase used in the reports, where a point advanced in argument by one party was not denied by the other; or where a point or argument of counsel was not met or noticed by the court; or where an objection was met by the court, and not replied to by the counsel who raised it 3 Coke, 9; 4 Coke, 40. … [Read more...] about AD QUOD NON FUIT RESPONSUM

According to the value. This Latin term is used in commerce in reference to certain duties, called ad valorem duties, which are levied on commodities at certain rates per centum on their value. … [Read more...] about AD VALOREM

This term embraces the idea of joining or uniting one thing to another, so as thereby to form one aggregate. Thus, "additional security" imports a security, which, united with or joined to the former one, is deemed to make it, as an aggregate, sufficient as a security from the beginning. State v. Hull, 53 Miss. 626. … [Read more...] about ADDITIONAL

One which is equal, or reasonably proportioned, to the value of that for which it is given. … [Read more...] about ADEQUATE COMPENSATION