Ad Sectam
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
At the suit of. It is commonly abbreviated. It is used where it is desirable to put the name of the defendant first, as in some cases where the defendant is filing his papers; thus, Roe ads. Doe, where Doe is plaintiff and Roe defendant. It is found in the indexes to cases decided in some of our older American books of reports, but has become pretty much disused. AD TERMINUM QUI PR/ETERIT. A writ of entry which formerly lay for the lessor or his heirs when a lease had been made of lands and tenements for a term of 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.
Fitzherb. Nat. Brev. 201.