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1. ab inconvenienti, adv. View full entry 1606
...From the inconvenience or difficulty involved (used with reference to an argument opposing a proposition on the grounds that it would cause hardship, inconvenience, or some other negative consequence)....
2. abintestate, adv. View full entry 1658
...= ab intestato; (also occas.) intestate, without having made a will....
3. ab intestato, adv. View full entry 1613
...From an intestate person, by intestacy (used with reference to matters of succession or inheritance)....
4. † accessarily, adv. View full entry 1611
...= accessorily1....
5. accessorily, adv. View full entry c1475
...In a supplementary or subordinate manner; as an adjunct; additionally; secondarily; incidentally. Cf. accessarily1....
6. accidental, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1387-8
...Not essential to the existence of a thing; not necessarily present, incidental, secondary, subsidiary....
7. accusatorially, adv. View full entry 1837
...Law. In an accusatorial (accusatorial2) manner. Contrasted with inquisitorially. rare....
8. accusatorily, adv. View full entry 1837
...Law. = accusatorially1. Obs.rare....
9. actionably, adv. View full entry 1792
...So as to give cause for legal action....
10. ad damnum, adv. and n. View full entry 1647
...With respect to the harm or loss suffered by the plaintiff. Now rare....
11. ad factum praestandum, adv. View full entry 1684
...With reference to a court order, decree, etc.: such that a particular task or action must be performed. Later also occas. (with reference to a legal action): in pursuit of a such...
12. ad idem, adv. View full entry 1574
...In reference to the matter in hand; with regard to the pertinent facts; to the point. Obs....
13. † affirmative, adv. View full entry a1513
...Affirmatively; on the affirmative side. Contrasted with negative...
14. against, prep., conj., adv., and n. View full entry eOE
...In reception of, in welcome of. Obs....
15. aldermanlike, adv. and adj. View full entry 1589
...After the manner of an alderman. Obs.rare....
16. alias, n. and adv. View full entry 1465
...Law. A second writ issued when the first has proved ineffectual. Cf. pluries Now hist....
17. alibi, n., adv., and adj. View full entry 1612
...A plea by a person accused of an act that he or she was elsewhere when it took place; a person who or piece of evidence which supports such a plea....
18. alio intuitu, adv. View full entry 1778
...With another consideration; esp. with a motive or intention other than, or in addition to, that professed....
19. aliter, adv. View full entry 1624
...Expressed another way; in other words....
20. aliunde, adv. View full entry 1629
...From elsewhere; from another source....
