description: From the inside the opposite of ab extra.e., a dead person, who died without executing a legal will cf. Ab initio mundi means “from the beginning of the world”. In other contexts, it often refers to beginner or training courses. In science, the phrase refers to the first principles. e., that the pseudo marriage was “no thing” (in Latin, nullius, from which the word “nullity” derives) and never existed, except perhaps in name only. An annulment is a judicial declaration of the invalidity or nullity of a marriage ab initio i. In law, it refers to a thing being true from its beginning or from the instant of the act, rather than from when the court declared it so. In literature, it refers to a story told from the beginning rather than in medias res (“from the middle”). description: Or, “from the outset”, referring to an inquiry or investigation.Incunabula is commonly used in English to refer to the earliest stage or origin of something, and especially to copies of books that predate the spread of the printing press circa AD 1500. description: Thus, “from the beginning” or “from infancy”.The phrase refers to the legal principle that an argument from inconvenience has great weight. An argumentum ab inconvenienti is one based on the difficulties involved in pursuing a line of reasoning, and is thus a form of appeal to consequences. description: New Latin for “based on unsuitability”, “from inconvenience”, or “from hardship”.description: Or “from the bottom of my heart”, “with deepest affection”, or “sincerely”.description: Also sometimes written as “abhinc”.description: Legal term denoting derivation from an external source, rather than from a person’s self or mind, this latter source being denoted by “ab intra”.description: Regarding or pertaining to correspondence secretarial office in the Roman Empire.This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure).
description: Said of an argument either for a conclusion that rests on the alleged absurdity of an opponent’s argument (cf.description: An inference from smaller to bigger what is forbidden at least is forbidden at more (“If riding a bicycle with two on it is forbidden, riding it with three on it is at least similarly punished”.).description: From general to particular “What holds for all X also holds for one particular X.” – argumentum a fortiori.