Meanings
alternative in foro conscientiæ
- not comparableMorally, but not necessarily legally.
Thoſe human laws, that annex a puniſhment to it, do not at all increaſe it’s moral guilt, or ſuperadd any freſh obligation in foro conſcientiae to abſtain from it’s perpetration.
1765, William Blackstone, “Introduction”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, section II (Of the Nature of Laws in General), pages 42–431 more example
The principle of the censorship is still uncompromisingly maintained by the Roman Catholic Church; and this, though in general binding only in foro conscientiae, has necessarily had considerable importance in states which recognize the papacy as an independent power relations with which are established by concordat.
1911, Press Laws, entry in Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, vol. 22, p. 300
Origin
- Latinin forō cōnscientiae“in the court of conscience”
- Englishin foro conscientiae
Learned borrowing from Latin in forō cōnscientiae (“in the court of conscience”).
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