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Home Dictionary Name: outsetfishing expedition
An investigation searching for evidence of wrongdoing with no credible evidence of such wrongdoing available at the outset of the investigation and often without specifying in advance the wrongdoing to be proven...
Outset
A setting out starting or beginning...
In limine
In limine (at the outset), preliminary...
Opening statement
Opening statement, means at the outset of a trial, an advocate's statement giving the fact-finder a preview of the case and of the evidence to be presented, but not containing argument, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1118....
Primo excutienda est verbi vis, ne sermonis vitio obstructur oratio, sive lex sine argumentis
Primo excutienda est verbi vis, ne sermonis vitio obstructur oratio, sive lex sine argumentis. Co. Litt. 68, (The full meaning of a word should be ascertained at the outset, in order that the sense may not be lost by defect of expression, and that the law be not without reasons.)The golden rule of construction is that words are to be construed according to their natural meaning, unless such a construction would either render them senseless or would be opposed to the gener scope and intent of the instrument, or unless there be some very cogent reason of convenience in favour of a different interpretation. Per BRAMWELL, B. (3 H&C 46)....
Regula catoniana
Regula catoniana, means the principal that the lapse of time will not cure something void at the outset, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1289....
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