Precludi Non
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
Ought not to be barred. These are the emphatic words of a clause in the commencement of a replication to a plea in bar, in Latin, by which the plaintiff alleges " that, by reason of any thing in the said plea alleged, he ought not to be barred from having and maintaining his aforesaid action," &c. This phrase is taken as the name of the clause.