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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from agere, to drive.] In the civil law. A species of right of way, consisting in the right of dri\dng cattle, or. a carriage, {jus agendi jumentum vel vehiculum,) over the land subject to the servitude.

Inst. 2. 3. pr.

It is sometimes translated a road, and included the kind of way termed iter, or path. Id. ibid.

1 Mackeld, Civ. Law, 343, § 313.

Bract, fol.

7 b. 232 a. See/ter.

Lord Coke, who adopts the tenn from Bracton, defines actus afoot and horse way, ▼nl^arly called pack and prime way; but distinguishes it from a cart way.

Co. Litt, 56 a. AD.

Lat To. Ad damnum, (q. v.); to the damage. For. Ad litem; for the suit.

2 Steph. Com. 333.

Ad vitam; for Ufe. Bract. fol.

41 a.

At. Adlargwn; at large.

Flowd.3l.

Until. Ad culpam; until misbehavior.

See Ad vitam aut culpam.