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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

This word has been held to have "a very large retrospect, as we say 'lately deceased' of one dead ten or twenty years."

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LATENS (Lat. from latere, to lie hid). Latent; hidden; not apparent.