Actus
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.