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Ex Visceribus

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

From the bowels. From the vital part, the very essence of the thing.

10 Coke, 24b; Homer v. Shelton, 2 Mete. (Mass.) 213.

Ex visceribus verborum, from the mere words and nothing else.

1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 980; Fisher v. Fields, 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 495.