Quivis
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
Any; anyone; everyone. Quivis praesumitur bonus donee probetur contrarium. Every one is presumed innocent until the contrary is proved. A familiar principle of common law, called "the golden rule of lawyers." QUO; QUOD. For maxims commencing with these inflections of the Latin pronouns qui and quis, see Qui; Quis.