from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
COMPERUIT AD DIEM, pleading. He appeared at the day. This is the name of a
plea in bar to an action of debt on a bail-bond. The usual replication to
this plea is nul tiel record: that there is not any such record of
appearance of the said. For forms of this plea, vide 5 Wentw. 470; Lil.
Entr. 114; 2 Chit. Pl. 527.
2. When the issue is joined on this plea, the trial is by the record.
Vide 1 Taunt. 23; Tidd, 239. And see, generally, Com. Dig. Pleader, 2 W. 31;
7 B. & C. 478.