A story can spend hundreds of pages building danger, uncertainty and emotional pressure, then resolve everything through a sudden event that appears fromā¦
Cui bono? is a short Latin question meaning āwho benefits?ā It is often used when people are trying to understand why an event happened, who may haveā¦
When a dispute turns on evidence, confident claims can quickly collide with an inconvenient fact. The Latin expression contra factum non est argumentumā¦
Audi alteram partem is a Latin legal maxim meaning āhear the other sideā. It expresses a basic rule of procedural fairness: a person affected by a decisionā¦
Latin expressions remain part of legal English because they compress complex habits of reasoning into a few recognisable words. Arguendo is one of thoseā¦
āAmor et melle et felle est fecundissimusā is a Latin saying about the fertile contradiction of love. Its literal sense is that love is made fruitful by bothā¦
āVincit omnia veritasā translates most directly as ātruth conquers all thingsā or ātruth overcomes everythingā. Its force comes from the contrast betweenā¦
āVeritas vincitā is a compact Latin expression meaning ātruth conquersā or ātruth prevailsā. Its force comes from the verb vincit, which suggests overcomingā¦
A vade mecum is a compact reference handbook designed to stay close at hand. The Latin phrase literally means āgo with meā, which captures the practicalā¦
Ultima ratio regum translates as āthe last argument of kingsā. The saying presents force as the final instrument available to a ruler when persuasion,ā¦