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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

The question, "Would a novelist in altered circumstances have given us more or better novels?" is sometimes treated as ultra vires or nihil ad rem on the critic's part.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

To speak ad rem, who is free from passion?

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

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."

From Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. by Burnet, John

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)