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wolfracesonic

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Sunday 22nd August 2021
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…I saw someone use on here a while back, something along the lines of ‘a piece of information that any person of reasonable intelligence should know’, I’m guessing mainly used in the legal profession; just thought it was an interesting term.

ApexCult

4,922 posts

183 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Generalis prudentia? lick

wolfracesonic

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157 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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^Could well have beenthumbup

ApexCult

4,922 posts

183 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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I just made it up hehe

Interested in the real answer though!

wolfracesonic

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157 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Now I’m going to be doubting any answer put forwardlaugh

Doofus

34,445 posts

203 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Res ipsa loquitur?

TwigtheWonderkid

49,125 posts

180 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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wolfracesonic said:
…I’m guessing mainly used in the legal profession; just thought it was an interesting term.
There was a law student called Rex
Who had very small organs of sex
When charged with exposure
He replied with composure
De minimus non curat lex.

Mr Pointy

13,409 posts

189 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Is it here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legal_Latin_...

I gave up loking around the start of the Ds

SCEtoAUX

4,119 posts

111 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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"Duh"

mac96

6,523 posts

173 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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I think the expression is often related to insurance- ie a potential insured has a duty of disclosure, but they do not have to disclose information that the insurer should already know as a matter of normal experience, such as the performance figures of a car (once the make and model has been disclosed).

Still can't think what the expression is though!

67Dino

3,644 posts

135 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Were you thinking of ”Caveat emptor”?

Literally means ‘let the buyer beware’, and is a disclaimer intending to put the onus on the buyer to do their own due diligence.



TommyBuoy

1,299 posts

197 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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a posteriori

Means that something is evident or basically is known and doesn't need you to evidence it?

There is another one that means it's clear as it happened; can't remember off the top of my head but ends in facto.

witteringon

1,925 posts

71 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Sodomy non sapiens

wolfracesonic

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157 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Not caveat emptor, I’m aware of that and after Googling it, definitely not sodomy non sapienslaugh I thought this would be an easy one!

hairy v

1,415 posts

174 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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witteringon said:
Sodomy non sapiens
laugh

bunchofkeys

1,302 posts

98 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/latin-word...

scientia ipsa potentia est — knowledge itself is power


Googie

2,354 posts

156 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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communiter notum- common knowledge, known

Cliftonite

8,747 posts

168 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Insurance? Uberrimae fidei.


TorqueDirty

1,894 posts

249 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Biggus Dickus?

vaud

59,650 posts

185 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Naughtius Maximus?