exceptio

So, in addition to the earlier mistranslation of the Latin word exceptio to mean ` exception 'rather than ` excepting,' we now have the other two, probat and regulam, with meanings that differ from the original.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3 1980

According to Coughlan, the theory first offered by Richard Grant White in 1870 provided a logical explanation based on the word exceptio in the Latin phrase exceptio probat regulam.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3 1980

White's theory was that the difficulty arose from the mistranslation of the word exceptio to mean ` exception 'rather than ` excepting.'

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3 1980

You must recognise that there is no rule so cardinal as not to allow exceptio.

The “Art” of the Cross-Examination : Law is Cool 2009

Anthony: exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis is Latin.

Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010

What it means in the long run is up to interpretation, but people follow patterns - that's why we call an exception an exception - it implies that there is a general rule most people follow (not like robots but in similar pattern) and that the exceptio deviates from that rule.

Men's brains, women's brains kittenpie 2006

The exceptio to that is if the government did not know about a given crime until later.

Firedoglake » Gold Bars Spins Back (How Could He Resist?) 2006

And, with exceptio n of the travel pool and also the advanced text of the radio address which will come out later this afternoon, that's the lid for the day.

Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996

Moreover, whereas by Roman law only a strictly legal suit (actio spolii) was open to a person despoiled of his goods, the canon law allowed him an additional plea in equity (exceptio spolii).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Thus every objection is shown to imply some inattention to the conditions of the hypothesis; and in each case it may be said, _exceptio probat regulam_ -- the exception _tests_ the rule.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889