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Term used in contract law to specify terms that are voided or confirmed in effect from the execution of the contract. Cf. ex nunc. Ex turpi causa non oritur actio: ex nunc: from now on Term used in contract law to specify terms that are voided or confirmed in effect only in the future and not prior to the contract, or its adjudication. Cf. ex ...
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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]
A prerogative writ, by which a superior court orders an inferior one to turn over its record for review. Now used, depending on the jurisdiction, for an order granting leave to appeal a decision (e.g. to the Supreme Court of the United States) or judicial review of a lower court's order. certum est quod certum reddi potest
In law, it refers to a thing being true from its beginning or from the instant of the act, rather than from when the court declared it so. Likewise, an annulment is a judicial declaration of the invalidity or nullity of a marriage ab initio : the so-called marriage was "no thing" (Latin: nullius , from which the word "nullity" derives) and ...
The legal, moral, political, and social principles used by a court to compose a judgment's rationale. ratio legis: reasoning of law: A law's foundation or basis. ratione personae: by reason of his/her person: Also "jurisdiction ratione personae" the personal reach of the courts jurisdiction. [2] ratione soli: by account of the ground: Or ...
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 ...
It is used in law to describe a decision or action that is motivated by hatred or anger instead of reason and is detrimental to those whom it affects. ab origine: from the source: i.e., from the origin, beginning, source, or commencement; or, "originally". Root of the word aboriginal. ab ovo: from the egg: i.e., from the beginning or origin.