ACTUARIUS. An ancient name or appellation1 of a notary2.
ACTUARY. A clerk in some corporations vested with various powers. In the ecclesiastical law he is a clerk who registers the acts and constitutions of the convocation.
ACTUS. A foot way and horse way. Vide Way.
AD DAMNUM, pleading. To the damage. In all personal and mixed actions, with the exception of actions of debt qui tam, where the plaintiff has sustained no damages, the declaration concludes ad damnum. Archb. Civ. Pl. 169.
AD DIEM. At the day, as a plea of payment ad diem, on the day when the money became due. See Solvit ad diem, and Com. Dig. Pleader, 2 W. 29.
AD INQUIRENDUM, practice. A judicial3 writ4, commanding inquiry5 to be made of any thing relating to a cause depending in court.
AD INTERIM6. In the mean time. An officer is sometimes appointed ad interim, when the principal officer is absent, or for some cause incapable7 of acting8 for the time. AD LARGUM. At large; as, title at large, assize at large. See Dane's Abr. ch. 144,
AD QUEM. A Latin expression which signifies to which, in the computation of time or distance, as the day ad quem. The last day of the term, is always computed9. See A quo.
QUOD DAMNUM, Eng. law. The name of a writ issuing out of and returnable into chancery, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to inquire by a jury 'What damage it will be to the king, or any other, to grant a liberty, fair, market, highway, or the like.
AD SECTAM. At the suit of, commonly abbreviated10 ads. It isusual in filing pleas, and other papers, for a defendant11, instead of putting the name of the plaintiff first, as Peter v. Paul to put his own first, and instead of v. to put ads., as Paul ads. Peter.
AD TERMINUM QUI PRETERIIT. The name of a writof entry which lay for the lessor or his heirs, when a lease had been made of lands or tenements12, for term of life or years, and, after the term had expired, the lands were withheld13 from the lessor by the tenant14, or other person possessing the same. F. N. B. 201. The remedy now applied15 for holdiug over is by ejectment, or under local regulations, by summary prooceedings.
AD TUNC ET IBIDEM. That part of an indictment16, where it is stated that the object-matter of the crime or offence then and there being found, is technically17 so called. N. C. Term R. 93; Bac. Ab. Indictment, G 4.
AD VITAM AUT CULPAM. An office to be so held as to determine only by the death or delinquency of the possessor; in other words it is held quam diu se benegesserit.
