contemporanea expositio

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. Legal opinions set forth at the time a document was written. uncountable
    — We have the contemporanea expositio of Edward the Sixth, but what is the contemporanea expositio of Charles the Second ?
  2. The doctrine that the legal opinions of the time a document was written should be used to interpret laws in preference to more modern formulations. uncountable
    — The contemporanea expositio is a safe key to the meaning of deeds, and in Evelyn's Memoirs, written fourteen years after the complete establishment of the Charter House, we have a striking illustration of the original rule as he understood it […]

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From Latin contemporanea expositio (“that which was said at the time”). Part of the expression contemporanea expositio est optima et fortissima, in lege ("contemporaneous explanation is best and strongest in law").
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