locus standi

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A right to appear in a court of law; legal standing. uncountable
  2. Acknowledged position or status. uncountable
    — The other young man, because his host, Sir John Marraby, was not yet on the scene, had no locus standi, and […] had to be ignored.

词源

Latin; short for locus standi in iudicio ‘standing position in court’. Latin Locus denotes a location, while standi is the gerund form of the verb stare, meaning to stand.
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