Ex Visitatione Dei
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
By the dispensation of God; by reason of physical incapacity. Anciently, when a prisoner, being arraigned, stood silent instead of pleading, a jury was impaneled to inquire whether he obstinately stood mute or was dumb ea visitatione Det. 4 Steph. Comm. 394. Also by natural, as distinguished from violent, causes. When a coroner’s inquest finds that the death was due to disease or other natural cause, it ia frequently plirased “ez visttatione Det.”