sua sponteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A borrowing of Latin sua sponte (“at its own prompting; by its own impulse; of its own free will”)

成句

sua sponte

1. (law) Without prompting or suggestion; on its own initiative.
   • 1878, "Decretals" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VII, p. 22:

     Decretals... ought, properly speaking, to be distinguished, on the one hand from constitutions... enacted by the Pope sua sponte without reference to any particular case, and on the other hand from rescripts... which apply only to special circumstances or individuals, and constitute no general precedent. But this nomenclature is not strictly observed.

使用する際の注意点

• Usually used when the court issues an order or otherwise acts without being petitioned to do so.

同意語

• suo motu, nostra sponte, motu proprio

関連する語

• off one's own bat

参照

• Black's Law Dictionary 10th Edition (2014)