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  2. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    No-one can face punishment except for an act that was criminalized before he performed the act Nulla poena sine culpa: no punishment without fault One cannot be punished for something that they are not guilty of. nudum pactum: naked promise An unenforceable promise, due to the absence of consideration or value exchanged for the promise. nulla bona

  3. History of Latin - Wikipedia

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    Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin) is a broad and analogous term referring to the Latin language as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church, its liturgies (mainly in past times) and during some periods the preaching of its ministers. Ecclesiastical Latin is not a single style: the term merely means the language ...

  4. Old Latin - Wikipedia

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    The concept of Old Latin (Prisca Latinitas) is as old as the concept of Classical Latin – both labels date to at least as early as the late Roman Republic.In that period Cicero, along with others, noted that the language he used every day, presumably upper-class city Latin, included lexical items and phrases that were heirlooms from a previous time, which he called verborum vetustas prisca ...

  5. List of Latin abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    "and following" This abbreviation is used in citations to indicate an unspecified number of pages following the specified page. Example: "see page 258ff." ibid. ibidem "in the same place" (book, etc.)" [1] The abbreviation is used in citations. Not to be confused with id. id. idem "the same" (man) [1]

  6. List of Latinised names - Wikipedia

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    In the preface, p. xi, Martin stated of that chapter: "Many of the [place names and] surnames have been found in classes of records which contain documents in both languages referring to the same case, like the Chancery Proceedings, in which bills and answers are in English and writs in Latin."

  7. Neo-Latin - Wikipedia

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    Neo-Latin [1] [2] [3] (sometimes called New Latin [4] [a] or Modern Latin) [5] is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and then across northern Europe after about 1500, as a key feature of the humanist movement. [6]

  8. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    A few problematic Gothic runic inscriptions may date to the early 4th century. c. 400: Tocharian B: THT 274 and similar manuscripts [84] Some Tocharian names and words have been found in Prakrit documents from Krorän dated c. 300. [85] c. 430: Old Georgian: Bir el Qutt inscription #1 [86] Inscription #2, made around the same time, is currently ...

  9. Manuscript - Wikipedia

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    The word "manuscript" derives from the Latin: manūscriptum (from manus, hand and scriptum from scribere, to write), and is first recorded in English in 1597. [3] [4] An earlier term in English that shares the meaning of a handwritten document is "hand-writ" (or "handwrit"), which is first attested around 1175 and is now rarely used. [5]