Ac Etiam
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. And also. The name of a clause in a capias ad respondendum, so called from its initial words. See Ac etiam billoe. Anciently sometimes written as one word, acetiam, and ajceciam.
Towns, PL 49. 2 Stra. 922.
AC ETIAM BILL^. L. Lat. And also to a bill. The initial words of a clause inserted in a writ of capias ad respondendum, where bail is required, in order to express the true cause of action; the writ requiring the defendant " to answer the plaintiff of a plea of trespass; And also to a bill of the plaintiff " against the defendant, for whatever the real cause of action may be.
3 BL Com. 288. Id. Appendix, No. IIL Sect. 8.
See Capias ad respondendum. This clause is now dispensed with, in the process of the English courts.
Stat, 2 WilL IV. c. 39.
See BilL