ac etiam

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ac etiam - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  AC ETIAM, Eng. law. In order to give jurisdiction to a court, a cause of
  action over which the court has jurisdiction is alleged, and also,, (ac
  etiam) another cause of action over which, without being joined with the
  first, the court would have no jurisdiction; for example, to the usual
  complaint of breaking the plaintiff's close, over which the court has
  jurisdiction, a clause is added containing the real cause of action.  This
  juridical contrivance grew out of the Statute 13 Charles H. Stat. 2, c. 2.
  The clause was added by Lord North, Ch. J. of the C. P. to the clausum
  fregit writs of that court upon which writs of capias might issue.  He
  balanced awhile whether he should not use the words nec non instead of ac
  etiam.  The matter is fully explained in Burgess on Insolvency, 149. 155.
  156. 157.