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Is there a typo in the Latin? “Qui vult decipi, decipatur” I Google’d it and got this: https://m.openjurist.org/law-dictionary-ballentines/qui-vult-decipi-de
by melling 7y ago
Is there a typo in the Latin? “Qui vult decipi, decipatur”
I Google’d it and got this:
https://m.openjurist.org/law-dictionary-ballentines/qui-vult-decipi-decipiatur https://m.openjurist.org/law-dictionary-ballentines/qui-vult...
- wazoox 7y agoProbably pig Latin. Quid volit decipere, decipatur would be better. "Qui vult" definitely looks like Old French.
- asveikau 7y agoI think I read somewhere that English language legal settings have a history of a peculiar dialect of French mixed in, owing to the Norman history in Britain.
- sandworm101 7y agoNorman, and Napoleon. The landed aristocracy has moved back and forth across the channel for a thousand years. They also fought countless wars against, and a couple alongside, each other. That creates a common culture that bleeds into all language. It happened in law, but also greatly in medicine and other sciences.
- schoen 7y agoHuh? "Qui" and "vult" are both classical. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qui#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qui#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vult#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vult#Latin And "decipi" is the passive infinitive ('to be deceived') and "decipiatur" is the passive subjunctive ('let him be deceived').