False Latin

In old practice.

Ungrammatical Latin

Before the statute directing law proceedings to be in English, if a Latin word was significant, though not true or good Latin, yet an indictment, declaration, or fine should not be impeached or quashed on account of it, as where the word praefato was used for praefatae, and the like. But if the word was not Latin, nor allowed by the law as vocabulum artis (a word or term of art), but was insensible there, if it were in a material point, as if murdredum was used for murdrum, in an indictment, or burgariter for burglariter, it made the whole vicious and insufficient.

5 Coke, 121b. See 4 Mod. 159; 5 Mod. 281; 11 Mod. 399.