ad rem
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ad rem
< Latin: literally, to the matter
Example Sentences
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Fiddlesticks! it's nothing ad rem, I tell you!
From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef
Thus the right of the partners to a marriage over each other's person is the jus in re; that of two who are betrothed is only the jus ad rem.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
The question, "Would a novelist in altered circumstances have given us more or better novels?" is sometimes treated as ultra vires or nihil ad rem on the critic's part.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
"Optume; but deliver yourself ad rem," he rejoined, alarmingly pacified.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
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
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