Legal Latin Phrases
Starting with phrase number 261

  1. Fetus sequitur ventrem - The child follows the mother (Legal term - whoever owns the mother, owns the slave - Whoever owns the cow owns the calf - If the mother is free, so is the child)
  2. Fiat iustitia, pereat mundus - Let there be justice, though the world perishes (Legal term)
  3. Fiat iustitia, ruat caelum - Let there be justice, though the sky falls (Legal term)
  4. Ficta confessio - Fictitious confession (Legal term - If the defendant does not go to refute the charges against him, that confession is admissible)
  5. Fraus legi - Violatio of a statute (Legal term)
  6. Fraus omnia corrumpit - Fraud corrupts all (Legal Term - discovery of fraud invalidates all aspects of a judicial decision)
  7. Fruti - - The fruits (Legal term - hence the word "usufruct" use of fruits)
  8. Fumus boni iuris - Appears good in the eye of the law (Legal term - there is something that allows one to perceive that the demand is valid)
  9. Functus officio - Having performed his office (Legal Term - Indicates that the person no longer has the power he/she once had when in office)
  10. Fundamentum iustitiae, primum est ne cui noceatur - The first foundation of justice is not to harm others (Legal term - Cicero - De Officiis I, 10, 31)
  11. Genus nunquam perit - The genre does not die (Legal term - contract in genere instead of in specie)
  12. Gerere pro patrono - Manage on behalf of the master (Legal Term - The right of a slave to represent the master in legal matters)
  13. Gratis data - Given for free (Legal term)
  14. Habeas Corpus ad subjiciendum - You should have the body for submitting (Legal term - The right of the prisoner to go to court)
  15. Habeas Data - You should have the data (Legal term - Laws related to privacy and security of data)
  16. Habere facias possessionem - That you cause to have possession (Legal term - Action taken to have possession of a property)
  17. Honeste vivere, alterum non laedere cuique suum tribuere - To live honestly, to harm no other, to render to each his own (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Justinian, Institutes 1.1)
  18. Humanius credere filium ditius vixise - It is most human to think that the son will survive (Legal term - In an accident where both son and father die, it is presumed that the father died first - Javolenus - Digest 34,5,9,22)
  19. Id certum est quod certum reddi potest - That is certain that can be made certain (Legal term)
  20. Id quod plerumque accidit - Things that occur frequently (Legal term - Legal Status of assumptions)
  21. Id quod semper aequum ac bonum est, ius dicitur - That what is always fair and good, it's called justice (Legal term)
  22. Idem Corpus - Identity of the body (Legal term - Identity of the lost item, the same object)
  23. Idoneus homo - A proper man (Legal term)
  24. Ignorantia facti, non iuris excusatur - Ignorance excuses, that is ignorance of fact but not of law (Legal term)
  25. Ignorantia legis nocet - Being ignorant of law harms (Legal term - Not knowing the law does not prevent punishment, if the law is broken)

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