{"id":8770,"date":"2017-11-20T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T07:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8770"},"modified":"2017-11-20T07:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T07:47:24","slug":"law-latin-corrupted-form-of-latin-mixed-with-french-and-english-used-in-law-and-legal-documents-including-writs-royal-charters-and-private-deeds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8770","title":{"rendered":"Law Latin – corrupted form of Latin (mixed with French and English) used in law and legal documents, including writs, royal charters, and private deeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law Latin<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(16c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A corrupted form of Latin formerly used in law and legal documents, including judicial writs, royal charters, and private deeds.\u00a0 It primarily consists of a mixture of Latin, French, and English words used in\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>English sentence structures.<\/strong>\u2014 Abbr. L.L.; L. Lat. \u2014 Also written law Latin. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Alexander M. Burrill’s\u00a0A Law Dictionary and Glossary<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2d ed. 1867):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cLAW LATIN. A technical kind of Latin, in which the pleadings and proceedings of the English courts were enrolled and recorded from a very early period to the reign of George II . . . . The principal peculiarities of this language consist first, in its construction, which is adapted so closely to the English idiom as to answer to it sometimes word for word; and, secondly, in the use of numerous words \u2018not allowed by grammarians nor having any countenance of Latin,\u2019 but framed from the English by merely adding a Latin termination, as murdrum from murder . . . .<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Bryan A. Garner’s\u00a0Garner\u2019s Dictionary of Legal Usage<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(3d ed. 2011):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cLaw Latin, formerly sometimes called \u2018dog Latin,\u2019 is the bastardized or debased Latin formerly used in law and legal documents.\u00a0 For the most part, we have escaped from its clutches.\u00a0 In 1730, Parliament abolished Law Latin in legal proceedings, but two years later found it necessary to allow Latin phrases that had previously been in common use, such as fieri facias<\/em>, habeas corpus<\/em>, ne exeat<\/em>, and nisi prius<\/em>.\u00a0 As Blackstone would later say, some Latinisms were \u2018not . . . capable of an English dress with any degree of seriousness.\u2019 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 323 (1768).<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a02 Alexander M. Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary<\/em><\/a> 135 (2d ed. 1867).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0Bryan A. Garner, Garner\u2019s Dictionary of Legal Usage<\/em><\/a> 521 (3d ed. 2011).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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