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No-one should be tried twice (for one and the same charge) It is a principle of double jeopardy (autrefois acquit) where a person should not be tried twice on the same matter. Nemo iudex in causa sua: No-one should be a judge in his own case. It is a principle of natural justice that no person can judge a case in which they have an interest.
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.
No herb (or sage) grows in the gardens against the power of death: there is no medicine against death; from various medieval medicinal texts contradictio in terminis: contradiction in terms: Something that would embody a contradiction with the very definition of one of its terms; for example, payment for a gift, or a circle with corners.
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 E.
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.
Nemo dat quod non habet, literally meaning "no one can give what they do not have", is a legal rule, sometimes called the nemo dat rule, that states that the purchase of a possession from someone who has no ownership right to it also denies the purchaser any ownership title.
No one helped. The bystanders were too busy filming. The cops? Well, instead of wrapping their jackets around a burning woman in an F train stopped at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station on ...
In law, a writ directed to the bailiffs, etc., that have thrust a bailiwick or beadleship upon one in holy orders; charging them to release him. Codex Iuris Canonici: Book of Canon Law: The official code of canon law in the Roman Catholic Church (cf. Corpus Iuris Canonici). Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur "No one suffers punishment for mere ...