Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

Raymond Brown wrote:

> ABSQVE - without [pre-Classical, surving in Classical Latin only in a few
> set phrases of a legal nature]
So that's why it's "damnum absque injuria" (harm done without legal wrong)
vs. "injuria sine damno" (the converse; not as common a concept).
I always wondered about that.  The former phrase is usually shortened by
common-law lawyers to "damnum absque", which is interesting because it is
not a constituent.

Geoffrey Pullum has a collection in one of his columns of book titles which
are not constituents: the ones that stick in my mind are _Last Seen Wearing_
and _Dancer From The Dance_ (which could be a constituent but isn't in this case).

> CORAM - in the presence of
What is the etymology of this one, anyone know?

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