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  • The word 'forensic' was derived from the Latin word 'forensis' meaning 'before the forum'.

    unknown title 2009

  • Omnes urbanae res, omnia studia, omnis forensis laus et industria latet in tutela et praecidio bellicae virtutis, et simul atque increpuit suspicio tumultus, artes illico nostrae conticescunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hoc quando subinde accidit non aliter est metuendus quam prævaricator forensis.

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • Bretenorio, quod tempore istius Guidonis, quando aliquis vir nobilis et honorabilis applicabat ad terram, magna contentio erat inter multos nobiles de Bretenorio, in cujus domum ille talis forensis deberet declinare.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • Hence, in contemporary catalogues of the popes he is called a presbiter forensis.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Cardinal De Luca there were about nineteen of them, as he himself tells us in his admirable work "Relatio Romanæ Curiæ forensis", without counting other congregations of a lower order, consisting of prelates, as were, for example, the "Congregatio baronum et montium" and the "Congregatio computorum".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The subjects are anatomical, pathological, surgical, obstetrical; they are inquiries into materia medica, medicina forensis, and the relation of botany to these topics.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • He declares that he had known nothing of the first conspiracy and gives the reason: “Quod nondum penitus in republic aver sabar, quod nondum ad propositum mihi finem honoris perveneram, quod mea me ambitio et forensis labor ab omni illa cogitatione abstrahebat.”

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • He declares that he had known nothing of the first conspiracy and gives the reason: "Quod nondum penitus in republic aver sabar, quod nondum ad propositum mihi finem honoris perveneram, quod mea me ambitio et forensis labor ab omni illa cogitatione abstrahebat."

    Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

  • The subjects are anatomical, pathological, surgical, obstetrical; they are inquiries into materia medica, medicina forensis, and the relation of botany to these topics.

    Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840

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