Sumer Singh Salkan the court observed that the process of maintenance is to support but not enrich the person getting the maintenance. Mukul Rohatgi, learned Attorney General for India, appearing for the respondent, would submit that the mercy petition is considered by the President of India in exercise of his power under Article 72 of the Constitution of India and when he has rejected the mercy petition after due consideration of all the relevant facts on earlier occasion, if such kind of repetitive mercy petitions are allowed to be submitted and further challenge to the rejection of the same is permitted, the danger of the concept of ad infinitum would enter into the field.Īlso in the case of Reema v. State of Maharashtra and Anr the question that emerged was that whether on the ground of not granting of 14 days’ time from the date of receipt of communication of rejection of the mercy petition, should the warrant which is going to be executed should be stayed or not Mr. In the case of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. If two parties enter into a contract which is a non-terminating one then it is said to be an ad infinitum contract. To describe any course of action which is infinite in nature the maxim ad infinitum is used. Moreover it is used to explain or describe situations which continue for an unnecessarily lengthy period of time.Īd infinitum is a Latin phrase which translates to “to infinity” or “forevermore”. There are many orders of court which are to be followed by the partied for indefinite amount of time and thus to describe such orders ad infinitum is used. In general it denotes any mode of action which continues for a long period of time without having any definite end to it. It can also be used for a set of instructions which needs to be continued forever or to be stopped for an indefinite period of time. It is generally used to describe a non-terminating process or a process which does not have amounts to a resultant end. Ad infinitum in legal context is referred as continue forever without any limit.

Beaux mendes ad infinitum