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coram nobis

coram nobis noun: a kind of legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error which did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.

Noun

coram nobis (uncountable)

  1. A kind of legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error which did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.

Origin of coram nobis

A shortening of the Latin quae coram nobis resident ("which [things] remain in our presence").

Questions about coram nobis

What does coram nobis mean?
Coram nobis means a kind of legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error which did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.
What part of speech is coram nobis?
Coram nobis is a noun.

Words near coram nobis in the dictionary

  1. coralwood
  2. coralwort
  3. coralworts
  4. coralyne
  5. Coram
  6. coram nobis
  7. Coramba
  8. corambid
  9. corambids
  10. Corams
  11. coran

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