Ohh-la-Latin!

This page will contain frequently encountered legal Latin maxims.  We've got a few ones right over here.  It's still under construction though. 


A

  • A FORTIORI
    • From a stronger (reason)
  • A QUO
    • From which
  • AD HOC
    • For one specific case
  • AD INFINITUM
    • To infinity
    • Forever
  • AB INITIO
    • At the beginning
    • From the beginning
  • AD INFINITUM
    • Without limit
  • AD LITEM
    • For the case
  • ALIBI
    • At another place
    • Elsewhere
  • AMICUS CURIAE
    • A friend of the court
  • ANIMUS LUCRANDI
    • Intent to make a profit
  • ANIMUS REVERTENDI
    • Intent to return
  • ANTE
    • Before

B

  • BONA FIDE
    • In good faith
  • BREVI MANU
    • With short hand
    • Without legal warrant

C

  • CAUSA PROXIMA, NON REMOTA SPECTATUR
    • The immediate, not the remote cause is to be considered.
  • CAVEAT EMPTOR
    • Let the buyer beware.
  • CAVEAT LECTOR
    • Let the reader beware.
  • CAVEAT VENDITOR
    • Let the seller beware.
  • CONSENSU
    • Unanimously
    • By general consent
  • CONTRA BONOS MORES
    • Against good morals
  • CONTRACTUS LEX
    • Law of the contract
  • CORPUS
    • Body
  • CORPUS DELICTI
    • Body of the crime
  • CULPA
    • Fault


D


  • DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA
    • Damage without injury
  • DATIO IN SOLUTUM
    • Giving in payment
  • DE FACTO
    • In fact
  • DE JURE
    • By right
  • DE MINIMIS CURAT LEX
    • The law does not concern itself with the smallest things.
  • DE NOVO
    • Anew
  • DELAGATA POTESTAS NON POTEST DELAGARI
    • One may not further delegate what has been delegated to him.
  • DIES AD QUEM
    • Last day
  • DOLO
    • Fraud
  • DOMINIUM
    • Ownership
  • DOMOS SUA CINQUE EST TUTTISSIMUM REFUGIUM
    • A man's house is his safest retreat.
  • DURA LEX SED LEX
    • The law may be harsh, but it is the law.

E

  • ERGO
    • Therefore
  • ET AL.
    • And others
  • ETCETARA
    • Other things of that type
  • EX GRATIA
    • Out of kindness
    • Voluntary
  • EX OFFICIO
    • From the office
  • EX PARTE
    • For one party only
  • EX POST FACTO
    • By reason of a subsequent act
  • EX PROPRIO (MOTU)
    • By one's own motion
  • EJUSDEM GENERIS
    • Of the same kind

F

  • FACIO UT DES
    • I give so you give.
  • FACTUM
    • An act or deed
  • FAIT ACCOMPLI
    • Accomplished fact
  • FALSUS IN UNO, FALSUS IN OMNIBUS
    • False in one thing; false in everything
  • FRUCTUS NATURALES
    • Natural fruit
  • FUNCTUS OFFICIO
    • Having done his functions

G

  • GENUS NUNQUAM PERUIT
    • The genus does not die.
  • GENERALIA SPECIALIBUS NON DEROGANT
    • Things general do not derogate from things special.
  • GRATIS DATA
    • Given for free

H

  • HABEAS CORPUS
    • Show me the body.
  • HABEAS DATA
    • Show me the documents/data

N


  • NEGOTIORUM GESTIO
    • Management of the estate
  • NEMO DAT QUOD NON HABET
    • No one gives what he does not have.
  • NOTA BENE
    • Note well.
  • NULLA POENA SINE LEGE
    • There is no penalty without a law (stating so).



R





  • RATIO DECIDENDI
    • Reason for the law
  • RES GESTAE
    • Things done
  • RES INTER ALIOS ACTA, ALIIS NEC NOCET NEC PRODEST 
    • A thing done between others
    • The business of others is not our business
  • RES IPSA LOQUITOR
    • The thing speaks for itself.


S



  • SINE QUA NON
    • A pre-requisite
  • SITUS
    • The place
  • STARE DECISIS
    • To stand by things decided
  • SUB POENA
    • Under penalty












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