List of legal Latin terms
Traditional legal principles will gladly expressed by Latin terms or phrases. Some of them are handed down from Roman times, particularly since the German civil law in key areas based on the ancient Roman law. Many Latin phrases are also more recent coinages. So in contrahendo knew the ancient Romans, for example, neither the nor the culpa nulla poena principles.
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- Nullum crimen sine lege " No crime without law " and
- Nulla poena sine lege " No punishment without law "
- Nulla poena sine lege stricta: " No punishment without strict law ". Circumscribes the analogy ban.
- Nulla poena sine culpa: " No punishment without guilt." Describes the fault principle.
- Nulla poena sine lege certa: " No punishment without particular law ." Describes the principle of legality.
- Nulla poena sine lege praevia: " No punishment without prior law." Rewrites retroactivity.
- Nulla poena sine lege scriptazu better: " No punishment without a written law ". Paraphrases no punishment according to customary law.