A Mensa Et Thoro
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See "Divorce." A NON POSSE AD NON ESSE SEQUITUR argumentum necessarie negative licet non affirmative. From impossibility to nonexistence, the inference follows necessarily in A PIRATIS AUT LATRONIBUS CAPTt liberi permanent. Those captured by pirates or robbers remain free. Dig. 49. 15. 19. 2; Groti Tis de Jure Belli, lib. 3, c. 3. § 1. A PIRATIS ET LATRONIBUS CAPTA dominium non mutant. Things captured by pirates and robbers do not change ownership. 1 Kent, Comm. 108, 184; 2 Wooddeson, Lect. 258, 259. A POSTERIORI (Lat. by the later reason). In logic. An argument proceeding from effects to causes. A PRENDRE (Fr. to take, to seize). Rightfully taken from the soil. 5 Adol. & E. 764; Nev. & P. 172; 4 Pick. (Mass.) 145. See "Profit a Prendre." A PRIORI (Lat. by the prior reason). In logic. An argument preceding from causes to effects. A QUO (Lat.) From which. Terminus a Quo. The point from which distance is reckoned. Court a Quo. The court from which a cause is removed.. Judge a Quo. The judge of such court. Ad Quern. To which; the correlative. A RENDRE (Fr. to render, to yield). Which are to be paid or yielded. Profits a rendre comprehend rents and services. Hammond, N. P. 192.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
From bed and board. Deseriptive of a limited divorce or separation by judicial sentence. ‘A NATIVITATE. IT'rom birth, or from infancy. Denotes that a disability, status, ete., is congenital, A Non posse ad non esse sequitur argumentum necessarie negative. From the impossibility of a thing to its non-existence, the inference follows necessarily in the negative, That which cannot be done is not Jone. Hob, 3366. Otherwise, in the aflirmative. Id,
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat. From table and bed; from bed and board, as the phrase is commonly translated. Used as descriptive of one of the kinds of divorce. 1 Bl. Com. 440, 441. See Divorce.