ad rem
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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
His plea or pretence, that he was sheltered by the superior grossness of Ariosto and La Fontaine, of Prior and of Fielding, is nihil ad rem, if it is not insincere.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
This criticism is either incorrect or nihil ad rem.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
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 George Saintsbury
"Optume; but deliver yourself ad rem," he rejoined, alarmingly pacified.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
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