Ex parte is a legal term meaning 'from one side,' used for proceedings or viewpoints not shared by opposing parties.
Ex parte est un terme juridique signifiant « d'une seule partie », utilisé pour des procédures ou des points de vue non partagés par les deux parties.
| Word | ex parte |
|---|---|
| Date | February 3, 2015 |
| Type | adverb or adjective |
| Syllables | eks-PAR-tee |
| Etymology | "Latin has not been over-used in a procedural context ('ex parte' being a rare exception)," wrote a correspondent to The London Times in May 1999. Indeed, ex parte (which literally meant "on behalf [of]" in Medieval Latin) pops up quite often in legal settings. Even when ex parte steps outside of the courtroom-to be used of an ex parte meeting, interview, chat, conversation, investigation, discussion, or contact, for example-the "one-sided" sense often has some sort of legal or legislative slant referring to involvement of just one party or side in a case or dispute. |
| Examples | "The record of the case was of vast length and full of technicalities, it was discussed ex parte by vehement propagandists on both sides…." - Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's, 1931 "In the U.S., lawyers are forbidden to meet with a judge 'ex parte,' or outside the presence of opposing counsel." - Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, January 9, 2012 |
| Definition | 1 : on or from one side or party only - used of legal proceedings 2 : from a one-sided or partisan point of view |
Tags: wordoftheday::adjective, wordoftheday::adverb
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