Ab Initio
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat. From the beginning; from the first act, A party is said to be a trespasser ab initie, an estate to be good ab initio,an agreement or deed to be void ah initio, a marriage to be unlawtul ¢6 initio, and the like.
Plow. 6a, I6¢; 1 Bl. Comm. 440.