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ante mortem statement.See dying declaration under DECLARATION(6). [Blacks Law 8th]

ANTE MORTEM STATEMENT [Blacks Law 8th]

ante mortem. [Latin] Before death. [Blacks Law 8th]

ante  meridiem  (an-tee  m<<schwa>>-rid-ee-<<schwa>>m).  [Latin]  Before  noon.  —  Abbr. a.m.; A.M. [Blacks Law 8th]

ante  litem  motam  (an-tee  lI-tem  moh-t<<schwa>>m).  [Law  Latin  “before  the  lawsuit  was started”] Hist. Before an action has been raised; before a legal dispute arose — i.e., at a time when the declarant had no motive to lie. • This phrase was generally used in reference to the evidentiary requirement  that  the  acts  upon  which …

ante factum.A thing done before; a previous act or fact. — Also spelled ante-factum. [Blacks Law 8th]

ante   exhibitionem   billae   (an-tee   ek-si-bish-ee-oh-n<<schwa>>m   bil-ee).   Before   the exhibition of the bill; i.e., before a suit has begun. [Blacks Law 8th]

antedating  of a prior-art reference.Patents. The removal  of a publication, a U.S. patent, or a foreign  patent  cited  as  prior  art  against  the  application  by  filing  an  affidavit  or  declaration establishing the applicant’s completion  of the invention  in this country, or in another NAFTA  or WTO member country, before the effective date of the cited…

antedate  (an-ti-dayt),  vb.1.  To  affix  with  a  date  earlier  than  the  true  date;  BACKDATE(1) <antedate a check>.2. To precede in time <the doctrine antedates the Smith case by many years>. — Also termed predate. Cf. POSTDATE. — antedate,n. [Blacks Law 8th]

antecessor  (an-t<<schwa>>-ses-<<schwa>>r  oran-t<<schwa>>-ses-<<schwa>>r),  n.[Latin] 1.Roman law. A professor of law. 2.Hist. An ancestor. 3.Hist. A predecessor to an office. [Blacks Law 8th]