ab initio
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ab (“from”) + initiō, ablative singular of initium (“beginning”).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editab initio
- (law) From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force. [Early 17th century.][1][2][3]
- 2007, Parliament of India, “Section 14”, in Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006[1], page 4:
- Any child marriage solemnised in contravention of an injunction order issued under section 13, whether interim or final, shall be void ab initio.
- (sciences) Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions.
- 1983, Monty Python, The meaning of life, at about 1h 15':
- […] this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
- 1983, Monty Python, The meaning of life, at about 1h 15':
- (of an academic course) Taken with no prior qualifications.
Translations
editreferring to the time from when a legal document comes into force
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calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions
taken with no prior qualifications
References
edit- ^ http://karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in/hcklibrary/PDF/Blacks%20Law%206th%20Edition%20-%20SecA.pdf Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition (1990) Ab initio: Lat. From the beginning; from the first act; from the inception. An agreement is said to be "void ab initio" if it has at no time had any legal validity. A party may be said to be a trespasser, an estate said to be good, an agreement or deed said to be void, or a marriage or act said to be unlawful, ab initio. Contrasted in this sense with ex post facto, or with postea.
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “ab initio”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.
- ^ Black's Law Dictionary
German
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin ab initiō (“from the beginning”).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editab initio
References
edit- “ab initio” in Duden online
Indonesian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin ab initiō (“from the beginning”).
Adverb
editFurther reading
edit- “ab initio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Spanish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin ab initiō (“from the beginning”).
Adverb
editUsage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
edit- “ab initio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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