pro tanto

pro tanto definition - legal

adj

adv

Latin

To such extreme; as far as it goes; for just so much. Often, a partial payment made for invoking eminent domain.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
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