CONSIDERATUR
L. lat. It is considered. Held to mean the same with constderatum est. 2 Strange, 874. .
Category: Latin Maxims
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CURRIT QUATUOR PEDIBUS
L. Lat. It runs upon four feet; or, as sometines expressed, it runs upon all fours. A phrase used in arguments to signify the entire and exact application of a case quoted. “It does not follow that they run quetuor pedibus.” 1 W. Bk 145.
DEBITA FUNDI
L. Lat. In Scotch law. Debts secured upon land. Ersk. Inst. 4,1, 11.
DEBITA LAICORUM
L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb, Eng. Law, 107.
DEMISSIO
L. Lat. A demise or let-
DEODAND
(L. Lat. Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God.) In English law. Any personal chattel which was the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature, and which was forfeited to the ‘crown to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in a...
DI. ET FI
L. Lat. In old writs. An abbreviatlon of dilecto et fideli, (to his beloved and faithful.)
DIOCESAN.
enforcing the attendance of witnesses, or the production of writings. Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, .71.
DIS, Breve
L. Lat. Writ of ward, or writ of right of ward. <A writ which lay for a guardian in knight’s service or in socage, to recover the possession and custody of the infant, or the wardshtp of the land and heir.
ENS LEGIS
L. Lat. A creature of the law; an artificial being, as contrasted with a natural person. Applied to corporations, considered as deriving their existence entirely from the law.
ERRATUM
Lat. Error. Used in the Latin formula for assigning errors, and in the reply thereto, “in nullo est erratum,” f. c., there was no error, no error was committed.
ET HOC PARATUS EST VERIFI
CARE. And this he is prepared to verify. The Latin form of concluding a plea in confession and avoidance.
ET INDE PRODUCIT SECTAM. And
thereupon he brings suit. The Latin conclusion of a declaration, except against attorneys and other officers of the court. 3 BI.
EX
1.A Latin preposition meaning from, out of, by, on, on account of, or according to.
FINIS
Lat. Anend; a fine; a boundary er terminus; a limit. Also in L. Lat., a fine (qd. v.) : :
FIRMARIUS
L. Lat. A fermor. A lessee of a term. Firmarti comprehend all such as hold by lease for life or lives or for year, by deed or without deed. 2 Inst. 144, 145; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 107.
FRANOUS
L. Lat. Free; a freeman; a Frank. Spelman. —Francus bancus. Free bench, (c. v.)— Francus homo. [In old European law. A free man. Domesday.—Francus plegius. In old English law. A frank pledge, or free pledge. See FRANK-PLEDGE.—Francus tenens. ...
GAOONOMICUS
L. Lat. In old English law. The executor of'a last will and testament. Cowell.
GOLIARDUS
L. Lat. A jester, buffoon, or juggler. Spelman, voc. ‘“Goliardensis.”’
HOMAGIUM
L. Lat. Homage, (q. v.)
HZEO EST FINALIS CONCORDIA
L. Lat. This is the final agreement. * The words with which the foot of a fine commenced. 2 Bl. Comm. 351.
IDEO CONSIDERATUM EST
Lat. Therefore it is considered. These were the words used at the beginning ef the entry of judgment in an action, when the forms were in Latin. They are also used as a name for that portion of the record.
IN OCUJUS REI TESTIMONIUM. In
testimony whereof. -The initial words of the concluding clause of ancient deeds in Latin, literally translated in the English forms.
INGENUUS
INFRA SEX ANNOS. Within six years. Used in the Latin form of the plea of the statute of limitations. l ;
INNOTESCIMUS
Lat. We make known. A term formerly applied to letters patent, derived from the emphatic word at the conclusion of the Latin forms. It was a species of exemplification of charters of feoffment or other instruments not of record. 5 Coke, 54a.
INTRA
Lat. In; near; within. “Jnfra” or “inter” has taken the place of ‘‘intre” in many of the more modern Latin phrases.
L. ZL
(also IL. Lat.) and kL. F. (also L,. Fr.) are used as abbreviations of the terms “Law Latin” and “Law French.” An abbreviation for “Law Reports.”
LACTA
L. Lat. In old English law. Defect in the welght of money; lack of
LAGENA
L. Lat. In old English law.
MAOTATOR
L. Lat. In old European law. A murderer.