Ta Scientia
Defined in 1 dictionary — Burrill (1850)
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
ET MERO MOTU. L. Lat. Of special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion. Formal words used in royal grants and patents; de gratia speciali, showing the favor and bounty of the sovereign to the patentee; ex certa scientia, implying a full knowledge and understanding of the matter; and ex mero motu, testifying that there was not any suit nor suggestion of the patentee, but that the first motion, and all that followed from it to the perfection of the patent, proceeded from the sovereign himself. Plowd. 330. 1 Co. 51 b. 2 Bl. Com. 347.