aceth, acethe

[ASETH.] ac etiam (pron. ặc é-shi-ăm). [Lat. = and also.] Law : A clause devised by the officers of the King's Bench for extending the jurisdiction of the Court over causes with which otherwise it could not have meddled. If a person charged with breach of contract or debt, an offence beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, was arrested for trespa which the judges could try, they took up the case of trespa , and coupling the other offence with it by the magic words ac etiam (and also), gave a verdict on both.