Latin Legal Terms

Definitions and South-African-law usage notes for the Latin terms judges, lawyers, and textbooks routinely cite. Free, indexed, and updated as new terms are curated from our source library.

consortium omnis vitae
partnership of the whole of life
This phrase denotes the totality of the marital consortium: the shared life, society, companionship, affection, and reciprocal support that arise from marriage. In South African law it is most often used in family-law an
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contumelia
insult; affront; humiliation
In South African law, contumelia refers to the injury to a person's dignity, self-respect, or reputation caused by an insulting or humiliating wrongful act. It is a recognised form of non-patrimonial harm in the law of d
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