Ex Visceribus
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
From the bowels. From the vital part, the very essence of the thing. 10 Coke, 24b; 2 Metc. (Muass.) 213, Ex visceribus verborum, from the mere words and nothing else.
10 Johns. 494; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 980.