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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

According to; following. A Latin word, which occurs in some phrases.

Secundum allegata et probata

According to what is alleged and proved. This phrase is used in expressing the rule that a party must recover, if at all, and a decision must proceed, upon the allegations and the evidence, not upon matters which are not pleaded, or not admissible under the pleadings; nor upon matters within the knowledge of the judge or jury, but not in evidence; nor upon facts which, though proved, do not make out the cause of action, or the defence alleged in the pleadings.

Secundum formam statuti

According to the form of the statute.