contemporanea expositio

Etymology
From. Part of the expression    ,   "contemporaneous explanation is best and strongest in law".

Noun

 * 1)  Legal opinions set forth at the time a document was written.
 * 2) * 1848, Clericus M.A., Cantab, pseud, The Church of England pronounced heretical, by the promoters of a petition against the consecration of dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, page 44
 * This is the contemporanea expositio which is to prove that the doctrine of the sacraments is not delivered fully in the Articles ; being in fact about a totally different question !
 * 1)  The doctrine that the legal opinions of the time a document was written should be used to interpret laws in preference to more modern formulations.
 * 1)  The doctrine that the legal opinions of the time a document was written should be used to interpret laws in preference to more modern formulations.
 * 1)  The doctrine that the legal opinions of the time a document was written should be used to interpret laws in preference to more modern formulations.