单词 | proprio motu |
释义 | proprio motuadv. = ex proprio motu adv. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > [adverb] > of one's own volition (of courts) proprio motu1679 ex proprio motu1693 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned iii. i. 251 Their transgression is not like that of Devils, who sinned proprio motu, without a tempter. 1681 J. Dalrymple Modus Litigandi 43 The Lords proprio motu will reject the Testimony. 1757 W. Harris Fiction Unmasked 186 All the Dignitaries of the Secular and Regular Clergy, assembled propria motu at Jamestown on the 12th of August 1650. 1891 Athenæum 3 Jan. 20/1 For the time the question must be considered shelved, but the change must soon come, and will probably now be adopted by the universities proprio motu. 1894 G. N. Curzon Probl. Far East vii. 214 Realising that the foreigner, having once been allowed to meddle with Korea proprio motu, could not be permanently excluded from closer relations. 1932 Scots Law Times Rep. 25/1 The Commissioners..have no power proprio motu to award a greater sum than £50. 1989 All Eng. Law Rep. 21 July 772 The volume of trade in PL(PI) products had become considerable because pharmacists were supplying them proprio motu. 2001 Hill Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. 17 The above preconditions to the Court's jurisdiction apply only to cases triggered by a State Party or by the prosecutor proprio motu. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1679 |
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