ad prosequendum
- noun
- Formal
:
orden de comparecencia
- The judge issued an ad prosequendum to ensure the defendant appeared in court for trial.
Examples
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Lawyers filed an ad prosequendum to bring the witness before the court for prosecution.
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An ad prosequendum was necessary to transfer the accused from another jurisdiction.
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The judge issued an ad prosequendum to bring the defendant to court.
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Can you explain what an ad prosequendum is?
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The judge issued an ad prosequendum to ensure the defendant appeared in court for trial.
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Lawyers filed an ad prosequendum to bring the witness before the court for prosecution.
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An ad prosequendum was necessary to transfer the accused from another jurisdiction.
Synonyms
108
3.5
An official instruction from a court telling someone to do or stop doing something
32
6.4
An official paper ordering someone to appear in court
Surface Forms
Morphology
ad + prosequendum
This is a Latin legal formula whose constituents are not English lexical items and are not likely to be known by an average B1 learner; the input even lacks dictionary definitions for the parts. Even if a learner recognized 'ad' as 'for/to', the form 'prosequendum' (a Latin verbal noun/gerundive) is opaque to most learners and the legalized phrasing is not compositionally transparent in English, so the overall meaning cannot be derived from the visible parts.
Etymology
Ad prosequendum was also used for a court order that told officials to bring a person before the court to face prosecution. Imagine a judge writing ad ('for') and prosequendum ('prosecuting') on an order to say 'bring this person for prosecution' — that is why it can mean a paper or order to bring someone to trial.