Legal Latin Phrases
Starting with phrase number 326

  1. Interpretatio stricto sensu - Interpreted strictly (Legal term - as opposed to largo sensu)
  2. Intuitu pecuniae - In response to money (Legal term)
  3. Intuitu personae - In consideration of the person (Legal term)
  4. Inveterata consuetudo et opinio iuris seu necessitatis - Inveterate habit and the opinion or necessity of law (Legal term - Usually - Unwritten Laws and behavior that follows people constantly: conviction of those people that such behavior is mandatory)
  5. Invito domino - Against the will of the owner (Legal term)
  6. Invitus nemo rem cogitur defendere - Nobody will be forced to defend the object (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 50,17,156 - )
  7. Ipse dixit - He himself said it (Legal and philosophical term - Fallacy in which the only proof, are the words of who makes the assertion)
  8. Ipso facto - By that very fact (Legal term - Fact that has a Judicial consequence)
  9. Ipso iure - By law (Legal term - As opposed to facts Ipso facto)
  10. Iter criminis - Path of crime (Legal term)
  11. Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur - The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted (Legal Term - Publius Sirus)
  12. Iudicis est ius dicere, non dare - It is the judge's role to explain, not to make the law (Legal Term - Bracton's Latin puns on Iudicis, of the judge, and ius dicere, to speak the law, to make this phrase memorable)`
  13. Iura et munera - Rights and obligations (legal term)
  14. Iura Novit Curia - The court called the law (Legal term, often used to say that judges know the law and result)
  15. Iura private - Civil rights (Legal term)
  16. Iura publica - Political rights (Legal term)
  17. Iure divino - By divine right (Legal term - It is used especially when talking about the law that governs kings)
  18. Iure et facto - Law and facts (Legal term)
  19. Iure humano - For human laws (Legal term - that is, by law is at the essence of man)
  20. Iuris et de Iure - Of Law and From Law (Legal term - A Phrase employed to denote conclusive presumptions of law which cannot be rebutted by evidence - Thank you: Kofi)
  21. Iuris praecepta haec sunt: honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum ciuque tribuere - The mandates of the law are these: to live honestly, do not disturb other, to give everyone his due (Legal term)
  22. Iuris tantum - The right to test (Legal term - Applies to the presumptions that are admitted. For example in criminal law, a defendant is presumed innocent until proved otherwise)
  23. Iurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, iusti atque iniusti scientia - The case law is the knowledge of the things divine and human, the science of what is right and what is unjust (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 1,1,10,2)
  24. Ius abstinendi - Law abstention (Legal term)
  25. Ius ad bellum - Right to war, Just war (Legal and Diplomatic term - refers to the branch of law that defines the legitimate reasons that a State has to go to war and focuses on certain criteria for a just war)

Total: 647
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