ad rem
Example Sentences
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He urged that negatives ad rem should be taken most carefully, and that, like the picture I showed him, they should be full of half-tone and detail, and yet have plenty of vigor.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
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
Nihil ad rem, indeed!" hiccoughed Zatonyi, "are not we in court-martial assembled?
From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s
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
