Citations:uno flatu

English citations of uno flatu

• 1841 December 23rd, James Lewis Knight Bruce in “Walker v. Fletcher” in The Law Journal Reports, volume XX (New Series, volume XI): For the Year 1842…from Michaelmas term, 1841, to Trinity term, 1842, both inclusive (1842), ed. Montagu Chambers, part I: Chancery and Bankruptcy, page 105/1:

  Knowing what has been done in actually decided cases, with reference to what is called uno flatu — that things which have taken three or four days to be executed, have, for the purpose of common sense and justice, been held to have been done uno flatu,— I shall hold the filing of the affidavit on the 21st of June, and annexing it to the bill on the 25th, quite a sufficient compliance with the practice of the court.

• 1852, Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XXII, “Latin for Lawyers”, page 113/2:

  In the Court of Bankruptcy, the other day, Mr. Commissioner Goulburn made a remark of a degree of importance sufficient to require at least our attention. Mr. Murray, who appeared for the assignees in a certain case, said that the affairs of the bankrupt, on a particular day, // “Were transferred to the official assignee, and without the slightest trouble on the part of that officer, £17,329 2s. 6d. were placed in his hands.” // The Commissioner. — “The whole of the amount, uno flatu, as it were.” // There is a deep meaning in this. Flatus is a strong expression. Uno flatu, at one puff, or one blast. Thus either the fatal facility, or the destructive ruthlessness, with which the law effects a transfer of property, is suggested; though whether it was the one or the other the learned Commissioner had in view, we don’t know. We say, learned Commissioner, advisedly; because those who know nothing of the law but its Latin, might imagine that he said uno “flatu,” for uno “ictu,” meaning, “at one blow.” Quod foret, as a modern Classic remarks, canis Latinus pessimæ descriptionis.

• 1872 February 8th, Anthony Cleasby in “Morrison v. The Universal Marine Insurance Company” in The Law Reports: Court of Exchequer, volume VIII: From Michaelmas term, 1872, to Trinity term, 1873, both inclusive: XXXVI Victoria (1873), ed. James Redfoord Bulwer, page 60:

  The effect of this is, that when, as frequently happens, several acts must be done to complete the transaction, although in fact consecutive they are nevertheless treated as contemporaneous, and the whole is said to take place uno flatu. Thus here, the slip having been initialed, and the premiums paid or promised, the policy, whenever it is given out, is as between the parties to be taken as executed uno flatu with the actual making of the contract. This is the view acted upon in Cory v. Patton; the Court of Queen’s Bench there regarded the policy as given out uno flatu with the initialing of the slip; they held the plaintiff entitled to consider the matter as then concluded, and the rights of the parties fixed, and they therefore held the fact that the assured afterwards became aware of material facts which he did not communicate to the underwriter, an immaterial circumstance; in other words, they treated the slip and the policy as the same document.