Meanings
- lawA situation not provided for by the statute; an omission or gap in the legislation referring to a specific eventuality, intentional or otherwise.
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They only meant to provide an appointed instead of a casual, a certain instead of an uncertain, owner, of lands which before were nobody's; and thereby to supply this casus omissus, and render the disposition of law in all respects entirely uniform: this being the only instance wherein a title to a real estate could ever be acquired by occupancy
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
Origin
- Latincasus omissus
- Englishcasus omissus
Latin casus omissus. Compare Spanish hacer caso omiso
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