Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    As if.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    (Lat. As if.) Townsh. PI. 23, 27. These words frequently occur in old English statutes. Lord Bacon expounds their meaning in the statute of uses: "The statute gives entry, not simpliciter, but with an ac si." Ban. Read. Uses, Works, iv. 195.