ex abundante cautelaadv.

1681 W. Lawrence Right of Primogeniture i. 66 Sufficient is already said to answer all Objections relating to the Lady Mother: yet Ex abundanti Cautelâ, against all shadow as well as substance of Objections, I shall likewise shew, That she was not only De Facto, but De Jure Married.

a1721 J. Sheffield Wks. (1723) II. 173 The Parliament in my Lord of Strafford's case..ex abundanti cautela, added this clause in that Act against the Earl of Strafford.

1814 G. Chalmers Opinions Eminent Lawyers II. 404 The king's constitutional power was deemed sufficient, without the special statute, which had been suggested ex abundante cautela, by the same spirit, which suggested the repeal of the stamp act.

1881 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 2 216 I should have done better still not to mention them, though I did so ex abundante cautela.

1940 Columbia Law Rev. 40 1323 Although draftsmen often insert words ex abundante cautela, his express provision here indicates that he thought the grandchildren of the Act might otherwise be illegal.

1970 Harvard Stud. Classsical Philol. 74 171 I say ‘apparently’ ex abundanti cautela since Ovid nowhere else uses any verb in the pf. part. pass. agreeing with gaudia.

2004 Y. Dinstein Conduct of Hostilities under Law Internat. Armed Confl. ii. 48 Ex abundante cautela, the United States might well be advised to have the status of Taliban forces determined by a competent tribunal.