EXPLANATION OF LATIN WORDS AND PHRASES OF FREQUENT OCCURRENCE.

Ab initio from the beginning.

Ad captandum vulgus: to catch the rabble.
Ad infinitum: to infinity, without end.
Ad libitum: at pleasure.

Ad referendum: for further consideration..
Ad valorem in proportion to the value.
Equo animo: with an unruffled mind.

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A fortiori: with stronger reason.

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Alias otherwise; as, "Jones alias Brown."
Alibi: elsewhere.

Alma mater: a benign mother; applied generally to the University.

A mensa et thoro: divorced from bed and board.
Amor patriae: the love of our country.
Anglice: In English,

Anno Domini: [A.D.] in the year of our Lord.
Anno Mundi ; [A.M.] in the year of the world.
Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders.-A Poem of
Dryden's, so called in commemoration of the
great fire of London.

A posteriori from the effect to the cause.
A priori: from the cause to the effect.

Arcanum: a secret.

Arcana imperii: state secrets.

Argumentum ad hominem: an appeal to the pro ·fessed principles or practices of the adversary.

Argumentum ad judiciur、: an expeal to the comrien

sense of mankind.

Argumentum ad fidem: an appeal to our faith. Argumentum ad populum: an appeal to the people Argumentum ad passiones: an appeal to the passion. Audi alteram partem: hear the other party.

Bona fide in good faith in reality.

Contra: against.

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Cacoëthes scribendi, loquendi: an itch for writing, for talking.

Capias a writ to authorize the seizure of the de

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fendant's person.

Caput mortuum : the worthless remains.
Certiorari: to be made more certain.

Ceteris paribus: other circumstances being equal.
Commune bonum: a common good.

Compos mentis: in one's senses: a man of sane mini..
Contra bonos mores: against good morals or man-

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Cui bono? Cui malo? to what good-to what evil. will it tend?

Cum privilegio: with privilege, with peculiar priv ilege.

Currente Calamo: with a running pen: with great rapidity.

Custos rotulorum: the keeper of the rolls and recoră. Data: things given or granted.

De facto in fact, in reality.

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De jure in right, in law.

Dei gratia by the grace or favor of GOD.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum : let nothing be said of tr dead but what is favorable.

Deo favente-juvante-volente: with GOD's favor

-help-will.

Desideratum: a thing desired.

Desunt cetera: the remainder is wanting.

Dies faustus: a lucky day: dies infaustus, an un lucky day.

Domine, dirige nos: O Lord, direct us.
Dramatis personæ : the characters of the drama, or,

the characters represented.

Durante vita: during life.

Durante placito : during pleasure.
Ecce homo: behold the man.
Ergo: therefore.

Esto perpetua: let it be perpetual.
Errata: errors-erratum, an error.
Et cetera: and the rest, and so on.
Excerpta extracts.

Exempli gratia: by way of example: [contracted,
E. g., and Ex. gr.].

Ex officio: by virtue of his office.

Ex parte on one side; an "ex parte" stalement, that is, a one-sided statement.

Ex tempore, or, as an English word, extempore:

without premeditation, without previous study. Fac simile, or, as an English word, facsimile; an

engraved or lithographed resemblance of handwriting.

Fas est et ab hoste doceri: it is allowable to derive instruction even from an enemy.

Felo de se; a suicide: in law applied to one, who is

supposed to have killed himself when in a sound state of mind.

Fiat: let it be done.

Fiat justitia, ruat coelum : let justice be done, though the heavens should fall.

Filius nullius: an illegitimate son, the son of nobody Flagrante bello: during hostilities.

Gratis: for nothin, gratuitously.

Hinc illae lachrymae: hence proceed those tears.
Hora fugit time flies, or the hour flies.

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Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto: I am a man, and deem nothing, that relates to mankind, foreign to my feelings.

Hortus siccus: a collection of the leaves of plants in a dried state.

Humanum est errare: to err is human.

Ibidem: in the same place: [contracted, ibid.].
Idem: the same.

Id est: that is: [contracted, i. e.]

Id genus omne: all persons of that description. Ignis fatuus: the meteor, or clectrical phenomenon called "Will-o'-the-wisp."

Ignoramus: a conceited ignorant pretender to know

ledge or learning.

In loco; in this place.

Imprimatur : let it be printed.
Imprimis: in the first place.
Impromptu: without study.
In commendam: in trust.
In terrorem: as a warning.
In propria persona: in person.

In statu quo: in the former state: just as it was

In forma pauperis: as a poor man.

In foro conscientiae: before the tribunal of conscience

In re in the matter of.

In transitu : in passing.

Index expurgatorius: a purifying index.
Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero:
prefer the most disadvantageous peace to the
justest war. [The favorite maxim of FOX.]
Innuendo: an oblique hint or insinuation.
Inter nos: between ourselves.

Invita Minerva: without the aid of genius.
Ipse dixit: on his sole assertion; he himself said it.
Ipso facto: by the act itself.

Ipso jure by the law itself.
Item: also.

Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur: the judge

is condemned [or blamed when a grilty man is acquitted, or suffered to escape.

Jure divino: by divine law.

Jure humano: by human law.

Jus civile: by the civil law.

Jus gentium: the law of nations.

Labor omnia vincit: labour surmounts every difi ulty. Laudari a viro laudato: to be praised by a man uko is himself the object of praise.

Lapsus linguae: a slip of the tongue.

Laudator temporis acti: a praiser of past times.
Lex non scripta: the common law.

Lex scripta: the statute law.

Lex terrae: the law of the land.

Litera scripta nanet: what you have written remain

in black and white.

Locum tenens: a deputy, a substitute.

Locus sigilli [L.S.]: the place of the seal.