Cautela

Lat. Care; caution; vigilance; prevision.

Caution; providence; care; heed. Ad majorem cautelam. For the sake of the greater caution. Ex abundant! eautela. Out of extreme caution. Ex majors cautela. By way of greater vigilance. Applied to the use of apparently superfluous words and the doing of things seemingly supererogatory, from an apprehension that otherwise some right may be yielded or prejudiced, some power or privilege waived, or an estoppel created: as where formal, technical, and synonymous terms are employed in instruments; where slightly varying averments are made in pleading: where special statutory power to do a thing is conferred, on the supposition that power may not already exist."