This week’s theme
Terms from law

This week’s words
arraign
pro se
depose
surrebuttal
subrogate

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PRONUNCIATION:

(pro say)

MEANING:

adjective, adverb: On one’s own behalf (i.e., representing oneself in a court, without a lawyer).

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin pro (for) + se (himself, herself, itself, themselves). Earliest documented use: 1861.

USAGE:

“Pro se cases always troubled Judge Fischbein. People representing themselves in this kind of complicated litigation invariably created problems for the court as well as everyone else involved -- a lose-lose situation!”
Doug McPheters; Goshawk; iUniverse; 2013.

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