Expressio Falsi

Concept of “Expressio Falsi”

Traditional meaning of expressio falsi in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A false statement. Expressio eorum qui tacite insunt nihil operatur: the express mention of those things which are implied avails nothing. Expressio unius est exclusio alterius: the express mention of one thing is the exclusion of another.

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1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Expressio Falsi”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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