Mvinare
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. To divine; to conjecture or guess; to foretell. Divinatio; a conjecturing or guessing.
Nemo tenetur divinare
No man is bound to divine; that is, to have foreknowledge of a future event.
10 Co. 56.
No man is bound to guess at the intention of the parties to an instrument. Divinatio, non interpretatio est, quae omnino recedit a litera. That is guessing, not interpretation, which altogether departs from the letter.
Bacon's Max. 18, (in reg. 3,) citing Year-book, 3 Hen. VI. 20.