Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

ex visitatione Dei

[Latin] 1. By the dispensation of God; by reason of physical incapacity. ( Anciently, when a prisoner who was being arraigned stood silently instead of pleading, a jury was impaneled to inquire whether the prisoner obstinately stood mute or was dumb ex visitatione Dei. 2. By natural causes as opposed to violent ones. ( This phrase sometimes appears in a coroner's report when death results from a disease or another natural cause.