Ore Tenus
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Byword of mouth; orally; verbally. Pleadings and many other proceedings were anciently carried on ore tenus, at the bar of the court, in the common-law practice. Oral proceedings are seldom allowed in modem times, except before inferior courts, justices of the peace, &c.