Ch 12 · Lesson 15Latin · Chapter 12 · Lesson 15 · Phrase session
Latin in the courtroom and the laboratory
Nine terms that lawyers, doctors and scientists still use as Latin, with the grammar that makes them mean what they mean.
Why these go together
Legal and scientific Latin survives because it is fixed: a term that has meant one thing for centuries is worth more in a court or a lab than a fresh English phrase. Most of these are a preposition and its case ( , , ) or a noun in the ablative ( , ). is Linnaeus's two-word name for the grey wolf.
you shall have the body (a writ against unlawful detention)
in good faith
at first sight, on the face of it
under judgement, still before the court
beyond the powers (of a body that acted)
in the place of a parent
after death (an examination of the body)
in its original place
the grey wolf (its scientific name)
Matching
0/9Match each phrase to what it means.
Fill in the blank
0/9Put the missing word back.
habeas (you shall have the body (a writ against unlawful detention))
bona (in good faith)
prima (at first sight, on the face of it)
sub (under judgement, still before the court)
ultra (beyond the powers (of a body that acted))
in parentis (in the place of a parent)
post (after death (an examination of the body))
in (in its original place)
Canis (the grey wolf (its scientific name))
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