A Fancy Way to Say “It’s mine and I want it back!”
Before the modern trend of plain English speaking, lawyers were well known for their use of complicated legal terms, antiquated phrases and Latin maxims. Older judgments are sprinkled with terms such as, inter alia, “res ipsa loquitur”, “obiter dictum”, ratio decidendi”, “a priori” and “ab initio”. Presumably as a result of the Norman conquest of…