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Definition of Terminus a quo
1. Noun. Earliest limiting point.
Generic synonyms: Beginning, Commencement, First, Get-go, Kickoff, Offset, Outset, Showtime, Start, Starting Time
Definition of Terminus a quo
1. Noun. The lower limit of dating, as of the earliest plausible date at which a fact could have occurred or a document could have been written. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terminus A Quo
Literary usage of Terminus a quo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"... or the terminus a quo in any other case where the question must begin a mínimo ;
the object being not to begin at that extreme which, and more, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance of Every Kind by Joseph Asbury Joyce (1917)
"... the rule as to goods being that except usage warrant otherwise, the goods must
be loaded "at" the particular terminus a quo, or place designated, ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... ministration upon his estate, was construed to include the terminus a quo,
and therefore a sale on the 1st day of May, 1821, wae held valid, ..."
4. A Handbook of Prescription According to the Law of Scotlandby John Hepburn Millar, Mark Napier by John Hepburn Millar, Mark Napier (1893)
"... being merely a collateral obligation, really falls under the statutory exception
as to the terminus a quo, and whether prescription must not be taken to ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the King's Courts at Westminster by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1799)
"... that here the terminus a quo, was laid to be a common highway, but was proved
to be a. private way; and he cited Lit, Rip. 29,5. ..."
6. The Greek Testament: With a Critically Revised Text: a Digest of Various ...edited by Henry Alford edited by Henry Alford (1849)
"If then we set the death of Paul with Wieseler in AD 64, we perhaps must not
allow our terminus a quo to be placed earlier than 70 : nor, supposing John to ..."
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