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The phrase is used on the US Naval Sea Cadet Nashville LPD-13 [2] unit crest. [3] The phrase is used by the 1-108th Field Artillery Regiment, the 28th Infantry Division, and the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the Pennsylvania National Guard. [4] The phrase is carved on the Chester Confederate Monument (1905) in Chester, South Carolina. [5]
Meaning: "serving at the pleasure of the authority or officer who appointed". A Mediaeval legal Latin phrase. durante munere: while in office: For example, the Governor General of Canada is durante munere the Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada. dux: leader: dux bellorum: leader of wars
Derived from the phrase pater familias, an Old Latin expression preserving the archaic -as ending for the genitive case. Pater Omnipotens: Father Almighty: A more direct translation would be "omnipotent father". Pater Patriae: father of the nation: A Latin honorific meaning "Father of the Country", or more literally, "Father of the Fatherland ...
agreement to sell back Contract of sale with right of repurchase pactum reservati dominii: agreement of reserved owners Reservation of title pactum successorium: inheritance agreement Bilateral contract concerning succession, usually made between a potential testator (future decedent) and his/her heir. Plural pacta successoria. The most common ...
a doctrine in contract law that allows a signing party to escape performance of the agreement. A claim of "non est factum" means that the signature on the contract was signed by mistake, without knowledge of its meaning, but was not done so negligently. A successful plea would make the contract void ab initio.
This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English. To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full) The list is also divided alphabetically into twenty pages:
Latin translation of a classical Greek proverb. Generally means putting large effort in a necessarily fruitless enterprise. Compare "selling coal to Newcastle". una hirundo non facit ver: one swallow does not make summer: A single example of something positive does not necessarily mean that all subsequent similar instances will have the same ...
amor patriae: love of the fatherland: i.e., "love of the nation;" patriotism: amor vincit omnia: love conquers all: Originally from Virgil, Eclogues X, 69: omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori ("love conquers all: let us too surrender to love"). The phrase is inscribed on a bracelet worn by the Prioress in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.