English Explanatory Dictionary

contemporanea expositio

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Legal opinions set forth at the time a document was written.
  2. The doctrine that the legal opinions of the time a document was written should be used to interpret laws in preference to more modern formulations.

Word forms

contemporanea expositio

Etymology

From Latin contemporanea expositio (“that which was said at the time”). Part of the expression contemporanea expositio est optima et fortissima, in lege ("contemporaneous explanation is best and strongest in law").

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