Adterminum

Lat. For a term. Ad terminum vitae vel annorum; for a term of life or years. Bract. fol. 26 b. Ad terminum, vel ad tempus; for a term, or for a time. Id. ibid. AD TERMINUM QUI PRAETERIIT. L. Lat. For a term which has passed. The name of a writ of entry which lay at common law for the lessor or his heirs, where a lease had been made of lands or tenements for life or years, and after the term had expired, the lands were withheld from the lessor by the tenant, or other person possessing the same; the writ commanding the tenant to restore to the demandant the land which the latter had demised to him for a term which was passed; (ad terminum qui praeteriit.) Bract. fol. 318 a. Reg. Orig. 227 b. F. N. B. 201. 3 Bl. Com. 176. 3 Reeves' Hist. E. Law, 30. 1 Roscoe's Real Act. 97. This writ was superseded by the action of ejectment, and is now abolished in English law by statute 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 27, s. 36.