Ad Custum
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm, 314; Toullier.
Dr. Civ., Cowell; Whishaw. AD DAMNUM (Lat. damnae). To the damage. In Pleading. The technical name of that part of the writ which contains a statement of the amount of the plaintiff's injury. The plaintiff cannot recover greater damages than he has laid in the ad damnum.
2 Greenl. Ev. § 260.
AD DEFENDENDUM (Lat.) to defend.
1 Bl. Comm. 227.
AD DIEM (Lat.) At a (or the) day. AD EA QUAE FREQUENTIM ACCIDUNT jura adaptantur. The laws are adapted to those cases which occur more frequently.
Coke, 2d Inst. 137; Wingate, Max. 216; Dig. 1. 3.
3; 19 How. St. Tr. 1061; 3 Barn. & C. 178, 183; 2 Cromp. & J. 108; 7 Mees. & W. 599, 600; Vaughan, 373; 5 Coke, 38, 128; 6 Coke, 77; 11 Exch. 476; 12 How. (U. S.) 312; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 4L AD EXCAMBIUM (Lat.) For exchange; for compensation.