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From birth. 3 Com. 2G66. A POSTERIORI (Lat). From the effeci A PRENDRE (Fr. to take, to seize). Rightfully taken from the soil. 5 Ad. & E. 764; 1 N. & P. 172; Waters v. Lilley, 4 Pick. (Mass.) 145, 16 Am. Dec. 333. Used in the phrase profit a prendre (q. v.) which differs from a right of way or other easement which confers no interest in the land itself. 5 B & C. 221; 2 Washb. R. P. 25. A PRIORI (Lat). From the cause to the effect; from what goes before. A QUO (Lat.). From which. A court a quo is a court from which a cause has been removed. The judge a quo is the judge in such court. Clegg v. Alexander, 6 La. 339. Its correlative is ad quern. A REND RE (Fr. to render, to yield). Which are to be paid or yielded. Profits & rendre comprehend rents and services; Hammond, Nisi P. 192. A RETRO (Lat). In arrear. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 55, § 2; id. c 62, § 14. A RUBRO AD NIGRUM (Lat. from red to black). From the (red) title or rubric to the (black) body of the statute. It was anciently the custom to print statutes in this manner; Erskine, Inst. 1, 1, 49.

Lat. From birth. Reg. Orig. 266 b. 3 Bl. Com. 332. 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 done. Hob. 336 b. Otherwise in the affirmative. Id. ibid.