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A claim of "non est factum" means that the signature on the contract was signed by mistake, without knowledge of its meaning, but was not done so negligently. A successful plea would make the contract void ab initio. non est princeps super leges, sed leges supra principem: the prince is not above the laws, but the law is above the prince.
whatever has been said in Latin seems deep: Or "anything said in Latin sounds profound". A recent ironic Latin phrase to poke fun at people who seem to use Latin phrases and quotations only to make themselves sound more important or "educated". Similar to the less common omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina. quieta non movere: don't move ...
Used to denote something that is an essential part of the whole. See also condicio sine qua non. sine remediis medicina debilis est: without remedies medicine is powerless: Inscription on a stained glass in the conference hall of a pharmaceutical mill in Kaunas, Lithuania. sine scientia ars nihil est: without knowledge, skill is nothing
Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny by modern Italians because the same exact words, in Italian, mean "Romans' calves are beautiful", which has a ridiculously different meaning. ibidem (ibid.) in the same place: Usually used in bibliographic citations to refer to the last source previously referenced. id est (i.e.)
Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est: They can kill you, but they cannot eat you, it is against the law. The motto of the fictional Enfield Tennis Academy in the David Foster Wallace novel Infinite Jest. Translated in the novel as "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier". technica impendi ...
Latin Translation Notes cacatum non est pictum: That's shat, not painted. From Gottfried August Bürger's Prinzessin Europa (line 60); popularised by Heinrich Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen ; also the title of Joseph Haydn's canon for four voices, Hob. XXVIIb:16; Ludwig van Beethoven set the text by Bürger as a three-voice canon, WoO 224.
actore non probante reus absolvitur: A defendant is exonerated by the failure of the prosecution to prove its case [5] presumption of innocence: actus me invito factus non est meus actus: the act done by me against my will is not my act: actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea: The act does not make [a person] guilty unless the mind should be ...
A shortening of quod quidem perquam durum est, sed ita lex scripta est ("which indeed is extremely harsh, but thus was the law written"). Ulpian, quoted in the Digesta Iustiniani, Roman jurist of the 3rd century AD. [13] dura mater: tough mother: The outer covering of the brain. durante bene placito: during good pleasure