Mens Rea
menz RAY-uh
A guilty mind; a guilty or wrongful purpose; a criminal intent. The physical act alone (actus reus) does not make a crime unless accompanied by a guilty mind.
Category: Latin Maxims
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MODO ET FORMA
Lat. In manner and form. Words used in the old Latin forms of pleadings by way of traverse, and literally translated in the modern precedents, importing that the party traversing denies the allegation of the other party, not only in its general effec...
MOLLITER MANUS IMPOSOUIT
Lat He gently laid hands upon. Formal words in the old Latin pleas in actions of trespass and assault where a defendant justified laying hands upon the plaintiff, as where it was done to keep the peace, etc. The phrase is literally translated in the ...
Montesq. Esprit des Lois, liv
28, c. 27.—False Latin. When law proceedings were written in Latin, if a word were significant though not good Latin, yet an indictment, declaration, or fine should not be made void by it; but if the word were not Latin, nor allowed by. the law, an...
NAMATIO
L. Lat. In old English and Scotch Jaw. A distraining or taking of a distress; an impounding. Spelman.
NEMO
Lat. Noone; no man. The initial word of many Latin phrases and maxims, among which are the following:
NOCENT
From Latin “nocere.” Guilty.
NON IMPEDIVIT
Lat. He did not impede. The plea of the general issue in The Latin form of the law French “ne disturda pas.”
NOVELLZE, (or NOVELLZE CONSTI
TUTIONES.) New constitutions; generally translated in English, “Novels.” The Latin name of those constitutions which were issued by Justinian after the publication of his Code; most of them being originally written in Greek. After his death, a co...
NOVERINT UNIVERSI PER PRZ
SENTES. Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds of release in the Latin forms.
NULLUM ARBITRIUM
L. Lat. No award. The name of a plea in an action on an arbitration bond, for not fulfilling the award, by which the defendant traverses the allegation that there was an award made.
NULLUM FECERUNT ARBITRIUM
L. Lat. In pleading. The name of a plea
OB
Lat. On account of; for. Several Latin phrases and maxims, commencing with
OBVENTIO
lLat. In the civil law. Rent; profits; income; the return from an investment or thing owned; as the earnings of a vessel.
PARATUS EST VERIFICARE
lat. He is ready to verify. The Latin form for concluding a pleading with a vcrification, {q. v.)
PARLIAMENTUM
L. Lat. A legislative body in general or the English par- HMament in particular.
PEDAGIUM
L. Lat. Pedage, (g. v.)
PER FORMAM DONI
L. Lat. In Eng: lish law. By the form of the gift; by the designation of the giver, and not by the operation of Jaw. 2 Bl. Comm. 113, 191.
PER METAS ET BUNDAS
L. Lat. In old English law. By metes and bounds.
PER TOTAM CURIAM
L. Lat. By the whole court. A common phrase in the old reports. -
PER VADIUM
L. Lat. In old practice. By gage. Words in the old writs of attachment or pone. 8 Bl. Comm. 280.
PERDONATIO UTLAGARIZE
L. Lat. A pardon for a man who, for contempt in not yielding obedience to the process of a court, is outlawed, and afterwards of his own accord surrenders. Reg. Orig. 28.
PERPARS
L. Lat. A purpart; a part of the inheritance.
Pro Bono Publico
proh BOH-noh PUB-li-koh
For the public good. Work done voluntarily and without payment, particularly legal services provided to those unable to afford them.
PROFERT IN CURIA
L. Lat. He produces in court. In old practice, these words were inserted in a declaration, as an allegation that the plaintiff was ready to produce, or did actually produce, in court, the deed or other written instrument on which his suit was founded...
PROFICUA
L. Lat.. In old English law. Profits; especially the “issues and profits” of an estate in land. See Co. Litt. 142.
PROTESTANDO
L. Lat. Protesting. The emphatic word formerly used in pleading by way of protestation. 3 Bl. Comm 311. See PROTESTATION.
PROUT PATET PER RECORDUM. As
appears by the record. In the Latin phraseology of pleading, this was the proper formula for making reference to a record.
QUARE
Lat. Wherefore; for what reagon; on what account. Used in the Latin -form of several common-law writs.
QUEM REDITUM REDDIT
L. Lat. An old writ which lay where a rent-charge or other rent which was not rent service was granted by fine holding of the grantor. If the tenant would not attorn, then the grantee might have had this writ. Old Nat.