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Terminum Qui Pretermt

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

WRIT OF entry ad. A writ which lay for the reversioner, when the possession was withheld by the lessee, or a stranger, after the determination of a lease for years. Brown. TERMINUS (Lat.) A boundary or limit, either of space or time. A bound, goal, or borders parting one man's land from another's. Est inter eos non de terminis, sed tota possessione contentio. Cic. Acad. 4, 43. It is used also for an estate for a term of years; e. g., "interesse termini." 2 Bl. Comm. 143. Terminus a quo. The starting point of a private way is so called. Hammond, N. P. 196. The point or place from which the grantee is to set out in order to use the way. 19 111. 563. Terminus ad quem,. The point of termination of a private way is so called. 19 111. 564. TERMINUS ANNORUM CERTUS DEBET esse et determlnatus. A term of years ought to be certain and determinate. Co. Litt. 45. TERMINUS ET (AC) FEODUM NON possunt constare simul in una eademque persona. A term and the fee cannot both be in one and the same person at the same time. Plowd. 29; 3 Mass. 141. TERMINUS JURIS (Law Lat.)

In English ecclesiastical practice. The time of one or two years, allowed by law for the determination of appeals. Halifax, Anl. bk. 3, c. 11, No. 38.