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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

初审的

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chū shěn de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
In limine/ɪn ˈlɪm.ɪ.ni/
adjectiveadverbCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #15000 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"律师在庭审前提交了一项初步动议。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Occurring at the outset, beginning, or threshold of a legal proceeding or process.

    "The defense filed an in limine motion to exclude potentially prejudicial evidence before the trial officially commenced."
As adverb
  1. 1

    At the beginning or preliminarily; before the main matter or trial gets underway.

    "The judge dismissed the flawed testimony in limine."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived directly from Latin, combining the preposition 'in' (in, on) with the ablative form of 'limen' (threshold). Historically used in Roman law, it entered English legal terminology centuries ago to describe preliminary motions or objections raised at the very threshold or beginning of a legal proceeding.

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