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per se definition - legal

adj

adv

Latin

By or through itself. Standing alone; on its own merits; without need for reference to outside facts. The opposite of per quod.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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