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A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims. This is a partial list of these terms, which are wholly or substantially drawn from Latin, or anglicized Law Latin . Common law
The following pages contain lists of legal terms: List of Latin legal terms; List of legal abbreviations; List of legal abbreviations (canon law) on Wiktionary: Appendix: English legal terms; Appendix: Glossary of legal terms
Pages in category "Latin legal terminology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 315 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Legal principle that a person who is not present is unlikely to inherit. absente reo (abs. re.) [with] the defendant being absent: Legal phrase denoting action "in the absence of the accused". absit iniuria: absent from injury: i.e., "no offense", meaning to wish that no insult or injury be presumed or done by the speaker's words.
law in the event: A law that only concerns one particular case. See law of the case. lex lata: the law that has been borne: The law as it is. lex loci: law of the place: lex non scripta: law that has not been written: Unwritten law, or common law: lex orandi, lex credendi: the law of prayer is the law of faith: lex paciferat: the law shall ...
also spelled juncta juvant; from the legal principle quae non valeant singula, iuncta iuvant ("What is without value on its own, helps when joined") iura novit curia: the court knows the law: Legal principle in civil law countries of the Roman-German tradition that says that lawyers need not argue the law, as that is the office of the court.
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter D.
Law Latin, sometimes written L.L. or L. Lat., [1] and sometimes derisively referred to as Dog Latin, [2] is a form of Latin used in legal contexts. While some of the vocabulary does come from Latin, many of the words and much of the vocabulary stem from English. [1]