ad rem
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ad rem
< Latin: literally, to the matter
Example Sentences
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And certainly this intimation from Suffolk Street, which might be very useful to a young barrister preparing for the circuit, is now to the "matter in hand" nihil ad rem.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
The right to product is exclusive—jus in re; the right to means is common—jus ad rem.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
In writing, he thinks of nothing but his idea and the person whom he addresses: ad rem et ad hominem.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
"Optume; but deliver yourself ad rem," he rejoined, alarmingly pacified.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
I might write would seem as nihil ad rem, as if I were writing of an island in the Pacific.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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