Ambiguitas
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat. From embiguus, doubtful, uncertain, obscure. Ambiguity; uncertainty of meaning. Ambiguitas verborum latens verificatione suppletur; nam quod ex facto oritur ambiguum verifications facti tollitur. <A latent ambiguity in the language may be removed by evidence; for whatever ambiguity arises from an extrinsic fact may be explained by extrinsic evidence. Bac, Ambiguitas verborum patens null& verificatione excluditur. A patent ambiguity cannot be cleared up by extrinsic evidence.
Lofft, 249.