(1)殖民地；殖民国
与宗主国有政治、经济联系且从属于宗主国的地区或国家，通常通过移民和征服或割让两种方式建立起来。

(2)殖民团
由移居海外但仍忠于祖国的移民组成的团体。

• adoption of contract
• adoption of foreign corporation
• adoption of statute
• adoption of transaction
• adoptive act
• adoptive admission
• adoptive parent
• adoptivus
• ad opus
• ad ostendendum
• ad ostium ecclesiae
• ad patria
• ad perpetuam
• ad perpetuam rei memoriam
• ad perpetuam remanentiam
• ad pios usus
• ad primam diem litigii
• ad probandum aliquid per credentiam duodecim hominum vicinorum
• adpromissor
• ad propinquiorem consanguineum
• ad prosequendam
• Ad proximum antecedens fiat relatio nisi impediatur sententia.
• ad publicam vindicatam
• ad punctum temporis
• ad quaerimoniam