coram nobis
Meanings
noun
- A kind of legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error which did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.
Word forms
Etymology
A shortening of the Latin quae coram nobis resident ("which [things] remain in our presence").
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