Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Contemporanea expositio est optima et fortissima in lege
A contemporaneous exposition is the best and most powerful in the law. ( A statute is best explained by following the construction put upon it by judges who lived at the time it was made, or soon after.
contemporanea expositio
[Latin "contempora-neous exposition"] The doctrine that the best meaning of a statute or document is the one given by those who enacted it or signed it, and that the meaning publicly given by contemporary or long professional usage is presumed to be the true one, even if the language may have a popular or an etymological meaning that is very different.