ad rem
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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
As brevity is the soul of wit, so is it the soul of a business letter—the argument of which should be ad rem, to the matter; cum punctu, with point.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
This criticism is either incorrect or nihil ad rem.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
Sometimes an argument establishing a wholly irrelevant conclusion is substituted for an argumentum ad rem.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
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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