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Latin

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

The language of the ancient Romans. There are three sorts of law Latin: (1) Good Latin, allowed by the grammarians and lawyers; (2) false or incongruous Latin, which in times past would abate original writs, though it would not make void any judicial writ, declaration, or plea, ete.; (3) words of art, known only to the sages of the law, and not to grammarians, called “Lawyers’ Latin.” Wharton.