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Legal Latin
Words in latin
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ipso facto | by the fact itself |
| persona non grata | an unwelcome person |
| prima facie | at first sight |
| ab initio | from the beginning |
| absolvo | i aquit |
| sine die | without a day |
| ad hoc | to this |
| ad litem | to the lawsuit |
| sui generis | of one's own kind |
| res adjudicata | a thing having been decided |
| post mortem | after death |
| a posteriori | from what comes after |
| a prior | from what comes before |
| a mensa et toro | from table and bed |
| amicus curiae | a friend of the court |
| a vinculo matrimonii | from the bond of marraige |
| ante bellum | before the war |
| bona fide | in good faith |
| cadit quaestio | the question falls |
| casus belli | cause of war |
| caveat emptor | let the buyer beware |
| sine qua non | without which not |
| certiorari | to be made more certain |
| compos mentis | sound of mind |
| non compos mentis | not sound of mind |
| contra bonos mores | against good morals |
| coram iuduce | before the judge |
| corpus iuris | body of law |
| cui bono | to whom for a benefit |
| corrigenda | that which is to be corrected |
| cum grano salis | with a grain of salt |
| de facto | according to fact |
| de iure | according to law |
| deus ex machina | a god from a machine |
| Anno Domini | in the year of the Lord |
| annus mirabilis | a remarkable year |
| (argumentum) ad hominem | an appeal to feelings rather than intellect |
| e pluribus unum | one out of many |
| et al | and others |
| et ux | and wife |
| in camera | in the room, chamber |
| in aeternum | forever |
| in flagrante delicto | in blazing crime |
| in extremis | at the point of death |
| in loco parentis | in the place of a parent |
| in re | in the matter of |
| per se | through itself - in and of itself |
| inter vivos | between the living |
| in toto | in the whole, entirely |
| mala fide | in bad faith |
| modus operandi | method of operating |
| ne plus ultra | not more beyond |
| nolo contendere | I do not wish to contend |
| nunc pro tunc | now for then |
| obiter dictum | having been said along the way |
| onus probandi | burden of proving |
| pendente lite | while the suit is pending - adverb |
| lis pendens | a pending law suit - noun |
| per annum | per year |
| per diem | per day |
| per capita | per heads |
| post scriptum | after having been written |
| post partum | after childbirth |
| pro bono publico | for the public good |
| pro forma | for form |
| quid pro quo | what for what |
| qui tacet consentit | he who is silent consents |
| rara avis | rare bird |
| res ipsa loquitur | the think speaks for itself |
| (defunctus) sine prole | (dead) without issue (children) |
| ultra vires | beyond the powers |
| habeas corpus | you may have the body |
| casus belli | cause of war |
| sui juris | of his or her own right |
| mandamus | we command |
| per stripes | per branch |
| in terrorem | to the terror |
| stare decisis | to stand on what has been decided |
| ex officio | out of one's office |
| ex post facto | from after the fact |
| in propria persona | in one's own person |
| corpus delicti | body of the crime |
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