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Probably pig Latin. Quid volit decipere, decipatur would be better. "Qui vult" definitely looks like Old French.
by wazoox 7y ago
Probably 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').