Auctoritas
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the civil law.
Authority
In old European law. A diploma, or royal charter. A word frequently used by Gregory of Tours and later writers.
Spelman.
Auctoritates philosophorum, medicorum, et poetarum, sunt in causis allegandz et terendz. The opinions of philosophers, physicians, and poets are to be alleged and received in causes.
Co. Lilt. 264.
Aucupia verborum sunt judice indigna
Catching at words is unworthy of a judge.
Hob, 343.
Audi alteram partem
Hear the other side; hear both sides. No man should be condemned unheard.
Broom, Max, IL13.
See L. RB.
2.P. C. 106.