4 - Form, substance, etc.

Question 1

A person entrusted with a pernt’s rights, duties, and responsibilities for a child is acting _____ (3)

Answer 1

in loco parentis

Question 2

An action handled out of court is an _____ (3)

Answer 2

actio in pais

Question 3

_____ (2) mean something is vague or uncertain, and thus in doubt.

Answer 3

in ambiguo

Question 4

A motion made at the outset of a trial is a _____ (3)

Answer 4

motion in limine

Question 5

_____ (3) means in one’s own proper person

Answer 5

in propria persona

Question 6

To say by right, we will say _____ (2)

Answer 6

in jure

Question 7

Any part or all of a lawsuit held privately in the judge’s chambers is conducted _____ (2)

Answer 7

in camera

Question 8

An expression denoting into the heart of the matter without preface or introduction is _____ (3)

Answer 8

in media res

Question 9

A term that means guilty or at fault is _____ (2)

Answer 9

in delicto

Question 10

_____ (2) means in doubt because the meaning is vague or uncertain.

Answer 10

in ambiguo

Question 11

A person at the point of death is _____ (2)

Answer 11

in extremis

Question 12

To try by trickery or craft to go around the law is to be _____ (3)

Answer 12

in fraudem legis

Question 13

Proceedings held in open court are had _____ (2)

Answer 13

in curia

Question 14

A borrower who omits or refuses to return a thing loaned at the proper time is _____ (2)

Answer 14

in mora

Question 15

A living person is _____ (2)

Answer 15

in esse

Question 16

_____ (2) is only a possibility, not an actuality.

Answer 16

in posse

Question 17

When a wrongdoer is caught in the very act of ocmmitting a crime, he or she is _____ (3)

Answer 17

in flagrante delicto

Question 18

A person in the keeping of a law officer is _____ (3)

Answer 18

in custodia legis

Question 19

Two terms that mean verbatim are _____ (3) and _____ (3)

Answer 19

in ipsissiums verbis / in haec verba

Question 20

_____ (2) is the state in which things were existing on any given day or time.

Answer 20

status quo

Question 21

A completely faithful transcription records testimony _____ (3)

Answer 21

in totidem verbis

Question 22

_____ (2) means instead of or in lieu of.

Answer 22

in loco

Question 23

To say among goods and property in someone’s possession, attorneys will say _____ (2)

Answer 23

in bonis

Question 24

Goods in the course of transfer are _____ (2)

Answer 24

in transitu

Question 25

_____ (2) is the Latin term for without purpose.

Answer 25

in vacuo

Question 26

To speak of a thing as a whole or in its entirety, we will say _____ (2)

Answer 26

in solido

Question 27

_____ (2) means real as distinguished from inferred.

Answer 27

in fact

Question 28

When two or more parties are equally culpable or at fault, they are _____ (3)

Answer 28

in pari delicto

Question 29

When the intention of a legal paper is unclear and in doubt, it is _____ (2)

Answer 29

in dubio

Question 30

_____ (2) means for the suit or to the suit

Answer 30

in litem