Acta Diurna
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat. In the Roman law. Daily acts; the public registers or journals of the daily proceedings of the senate, assemblies of the people, courts of justice, etc. Supposed to have resembled 2 modern newspaper.
Brande.
Acta exteriora indicant interiora secrota.
8 Coke, 1468.
External acts indicate undisclosed thoughts, Acta in uno judicio non probant in alio nisi inter easdem personas. Things done in one action cannot be take as evidence in another, unless it be between the same parties.
Tray. Lal. Max. 11.