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1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) f. 128 Pope Sixtus ordayned, that the Canon of the Masse should be secretly said and Sub silentio.

1618 J. Chamberlain Let. 31 Jan. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 62 By late letters from Newmarket, he is restored, and all things shut up sub silentio.

1689 Proc. & Tryal Archbishop of Canterbury & Right Rev. Fathers 16 If such a Precedent could be shewn, that past sub Silentio, without debate or solemn determination, that would not do.

1717 Hist. Reg. 1716 271 As to the Answer given to my Lord Stafford's Case, that, this Objection was not made there, but that it pass'd sub silentio.

1760 G. Gilbert Cases Law & Equity 267 These are better than many precedents in the office, which have passed sub silentio without being litigated.

1852 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 4) II. 555/2 Sometimes passing a thing sub silentio is evidence of consent.

1863 J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. II xvi. 511 The Bishop would probably have passed over Mr. Quayle's second communication sub silentio as he had done the former.

1927 P. Toynbee in A. Dobson Horace Walpole (ed. 4) p. vi Corrections in the body of the work have been made for the most part sub silentio.

1951 Michigan Law Rev. 49 415 Helvering v . Hallock did not deign to mention May v. Heiner. Thus, if the latter case was overruled, it was sub silentio—a technique universally condemned.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Feb. 42/4 The conclusion that Congress implicitly and sub silentio repealed..the provision that identifies FISA and specific criminal code provisions.