Legal Latin Phrases
Starting with phrase number 601

  1. Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas - Use what's yours without harming others (Legal and diplomatic term - Used in international law to specify that countries are free to use their own natural resources, as long as they do not compromise the resources of neighboring countries)
  2. Sine actione agis - No action to sue (Legal term)
  3. Societas delinquere non potest - Societies may not transgress (Legal term)
  4. Solve et repete - Pay now and protest later (Legal term - Settle, then appeal)
  5. Specialia generalibus derogant - Specialized laws take precedence over general laws (Legal term)
  6. Standum est chartae - Must stand by the letter (Legal term - Must adhere to the writte agreement)
  7. Stare decisis, et quaeta non muovere - Hold on to what was decided, do not modify what exists (Legal term)
  8. Statuto de terris ad manum mortuam non ponendo edito non obstante - Not withstanding the statute edicted about not placing lands in Mortmain (Legal term - Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland - The Mortain statute prevents land from passing into the possession of the Church without a royal license)
  9. Sub iudice - Under judgement (Legal term - Involved in a judicial process and waiting for a sentence)
  10. Sui iuris - Own rights (Legal Term - Emancipated - Compare with Alieni iuris)
  11. Superficie solo cedit - The surface accesses the ground (Legal term - claims and rights have to be real, grounded on the law)
  12. Suum cuique tribuere - To each his own (Legal term)
  13. Tempus fugit iuris lumen dum fulget iuristis - Time flees, while the light of law shines for the jurist (Legal term by professor David Misari)
  14. Terminus a quo - Limit from which (Legal term)
  15. Terminus ad quem - Limit to which (Legal term)
  16. Terminus ante quem - Limit before which (Legal term)
  17. Terminus post quem - Limit after which (Legal term)
  18. Testes habesne? - Do you have witnesses? (Legal term - Pliny the elder)
  19. Thema decidendi - The matter to be decided (Legal term)
  20. Tribunicia auctoritas morum - Tribunal moral authority (Legal term)
  21. Tribunicia potestas - Tribunal power (Legal term)
  22. Tutela est vis ac potestas in capite libero ad tuendum eum qui propter aetatem suam sponte se defendere nequit - Guardianship is power and authority to protect someone who because of his age, cannot protect himself (Legal term - definition of Tutela)
  23. Ubi eadem ratio, idem ius - For the same reason, the same law (Legal term)
  24. Ubi homo, ibi societas; ubi societas, ibi Ius; ergo, ubi homo, ibi Ius - Where there was man, there was society, where there was society there was law (Legal term - indicates that rule of law is an integral part of mankind)
  25. Ubi lex non distinguit, nec nos distinguere debemus - Where the law does not distinguish, we should not distinguish (Legal term - Laws must be applied as written)

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