Legal Latin Phrases
Starting with phrase number 611

  1. Superficie solo cedit - The surface accesses the ground (Legal term - claims and rights have to be real, grounded on the law)
  2. Suum cuique tribuere - To each his own (Legal term)
  3. Tempus fugit iuris lumen dum fulget iuristis - Time flees, while the light of law shines for the jurist (Legal term by professor David Misari)
  4. Terminus a quo - Limit from which (Legal term)
  5. Terminus ad quem - Limit to which (Legal term)
  6. Terminus ante quem - Limit before which (Legal term)
  7. Terminus post quem - Limit after which (Legal term)
  8. Testes habesne? - Do you have witnesses? (Legal term - Pliny the elder)
  9. Thema decidendi - The matter to be decided (Legal term)
  10. Tribunicia auctoritas morum - Tribunal moral authority (Legal term)
  11. Tribunicia potestas - Tribunal power (Legal term)
  12. 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)
  13. Ubi eadem ratio, idem ius - For the same reason, the same law (Legal term)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. Ubi lex voluit, dixit; ubi non voluit, tacuit - When the law wanted it, it talked, when the did not want it, it remained silent (Legal term)
  17. Ubi maior minor cessat - Where there is a greater (authority), the lower stops (Legal term - A higher court overwrites a lower one)
  18. Ubi verba non sunt ambigua, non est locus interpretationibus - Where words are unambiguous, there is no room for interpretations (Legal term - from the book "The ABC of Law" by David Efrain Misari Torpoco)
  19. Ultra posse nemo obligatur - Nobody is forced to do the impossible (Legal Term - Ulpian - The obligations do not extend beyond the capabilities)
  20. Ultra vires - Beyond their power (Legal term - Refers to acts of governing bodies that exceed their mandate)
  21. Ultra vires hereditatis - Obligation beyond hereditary (Legal term - the inheritor has direct and unlimited liability for the liabilities of the deceased)
  22. Universitas non moritur - The corporation does not die (Legal term - it says alive even after its founders die)
  23. Uno ictu - (Legal Term - Rights that are automatically transmitted)
  24. Unus testis, nullus testis - One witness is no witness (Legal Term - The law requires more than one witness to judge - Thank you: Dietrich Hartmann )
  25. Usteron proteron - The late earlier (Legal and philosophical term - Fallacy that assumes that something that has not been proven is true, figure of speech that reverses the natural order of words)

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