Argumentum
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
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Argument
Argumentum accidentibus in jure frequens est: an monly occurring things is frequent in law. divisione est fortissimum in lege: an [of the subject] is of very great force in tum a similis valet in lege: an argument good in law. Argumentum ab auctoritate from authority [judicial decisions].
Ab impossibility
Ab inconvenienti: from Ad crumenam: to the purse.
Ad hominem personal
Ad ignorantiam: to ignorance which the hearers cannot detect]. Ad esty [appealing to the sense of decency].