Ratio-decidendi Definition

noun

(law) The legal principle or rationale on which a judicial decision is based.

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Singular:
ratio-decidendi
Plural:
rationes-decidendi

Origin of Ratio-decidendi

  • Latin ratio (“reckoning, method, reasoning”) + decidendi, genitive singular of decidendus, gerund of decidere (“to settle”)

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