Legal Latin Phrases
Starting with phrase number 15

15. Aberratio ictus - Mistake in the blow (Legal term that refers in an error where the wrong person gets hurt, e.g. to shot against one person and kill someone else)
16. Abusus non est usus, sed corruptela - Abuse is not use, it is corruption (Legal term)
17. Abusus non tollit usum - The abuse does invalidate the use (Legal term - Abuses shall not prevent to use something correctly)
18. Accesorium non ducit, sed sequitur suum principale - The accessory does not lead, they follow the fortunes of the principal (Legal term)
19. Actio damni infecti - Action for damages and infections (Legal term - e.g. Restitution for cattle grazing on the plaintiff's land)
20. Actio de in rem verso - Enrichment without cause (Legal term)
21. Actio de partu agnoscendo - Action of recognition of the child (Legal term)
22. Actio est ius persequendi in iudicio, quod sibi debetur - Action is the right to obtain what it is due by the process of law (Legal term - Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Instituta, libri 1, 6)
23. Actio illicita in causa - Action illicitly planned (Legal term - compare with Actio libera in causa)
24. Actio in personam - Personal action (Legal term)
25. Actio in rem scripta - Real action (Legal term)
26. Actio libera in causa - Action free in its cause (Legal term - compare with Actio illicita in causa)
27. Actio pro socio - An action of partnership (Legal term - An action brought by one partner against his associates to compel them to carry out the terms of the partnership agreement)
28. Actio Redhibitoria - Action to rescind a sale (Legal term)
29. Actio semel extincta non reviviscit - Extinguished action does not revive (Legal term)
30. Actiones non natae non praescribunt - Actions that have not been born, are not prescribed (Legal term)
31. Actor incumbit probatio, reus excipiendo fit actor - The plaintiff must provide proof of the facts alleged, the defendant the exceptions presented (Legal term)
32. Actore non probante, reus absolvitur - When the plaintiff does not prove his case, the defendant is absolved (Legal term)
33. Actori incumbis onus probandi - The plaintiff must prove the case (Legal term)
34. Actus me invito pactus, non es meus actus - What I did against my will is not my fault (Legal term)
35. Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea - The act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty (Legal term)
36. Ad acta - To the archives (Legal term - abbreviated as AA)
37. Ad acta atra peracta sunt facta atta patrata - For dark acts are prepared dark jails (Legal term in reference to serious crimes)
38. Ad auxilium vocatus - The one called to help (Legal term - ad-vocatus = lawyer)
39. Ad avizandum - To further consider ( The term employed when a Scottish Court takes further time for the consideration of a cause, instead of pronouncing an immediate decision upon it. The Court is said to ‘take the case ad avizandum’ or to ‘make avizandum of the case’”. This Latinate word is one of the many Scottish legal terms that is not heard in English Courts - Thank you: Alasdair Rankin )

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