ad rem
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ad rem
< Latin: literally, to the matter
Example Sentences
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"Optume; but deliver yourself ad rem," he rejoined, alarmingly pacified.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
This criticism is either incorrect or nihil ad rem.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
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 P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
This is a trick which ought to be one of the first; it is, at bottom, an expedient by which an argumentum ad hominem is put forward as an argumentum ad rem.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
But why have not those, who in later times have established the distinction between jus in re and jus ad rem, applied it to the principle of property itself?
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
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