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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
A legal maxim is an established principle or proposition of law, and a species of aphorism and general maxim.The word is apparently a variant of the Latin maxima, but this latter word is not found in extant texts of Roman law with any denotation exactly analogous to that of a legal maxim in the Medieval or modern definition, but the treatises of many of the Roman jurists on regular ...
Latin Translation Notes saltus in demonstrando: leap in explaining: a leap in logic, by which a necessary part of an equation is omitted. salus in arduis: a stronghold (or refuge) in difficulties: a Roman Silver Age maxim. Also the school motto of Wellingborough School. salus populi suprema lex esto: the welfare of the people is to be the ...
List of Greek and Latin roots in English; List of Latin abbreviations; List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names; List of Latin words with English derivatives; List of Latin legal terms; List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes; List of sundial mottos § Latin mottos; List of U.S. state and territory mottos
"Common" here does not mean "ordinary", but "common to every situation" communibus locis: in common places: A term frequently used among philosophical and other writers, implying some medium, or mean relation between several places; one place with another; on a medium. "Common" here does not mean "ordinary", but "common to every situation"
A maxim in text criticism. Codified, but simultaneously refuted, by Johann Jakob Griesbach. lectio difficilior potior: The more difficult reading is the stronger: lectori salutem (L. S.) greetings to the reader: Often abbreviated to L.S., used as opening words for a letter lege artis: according to the law of the art
Down the rabbit hole; backtranslation, not a genuine Latin phrase; see Down the rabbit hole. desiderantes meliorem patriam: they desired a better land: From Hebrews 11:16; the motto of the Order of Canada. Deus caritas est: God Is Love: Title and first words of the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI.
Loosely: "You have been dismissed". Concluding words addressed to the people in the Mass of the Roman Rite. [7] The term missa "Mass" derives from a reanalysis of the phrase to mean "Go, the missa is accomplished." iter legis: the path of the law: The path a law takes from its conception to its implementation iucunda memoria est praeteritorum ...