ad rem
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We have a display of learning to little purpose, quotations from Latin and Greek, really "nihil ad rem;" the "φαντασιας" of the Greek, and "visiones" of the Romans.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various
Nihil ad rem, indeed!" hiccoughed Zatonyi, "are not we in court-martial assembled?
From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef
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 Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
Sed vt ad rem: De Religione equidem nostra, quæ qualiseu fuerit, cum Ethnicismus primùm fugari coepit, nihil magnificè diceret possumus: quemadmodum nec alia Septentrionis Regna vicina, vti existimo, de suis fidei initijs.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
Fresnoy says, in his poem on the "Art of Painting," "Nec quod inane, nihil facit ad rem sive videtur Improprium minim�que urgens potiora tenebit Ornamenta operis."
