So the hamsters have up and died, have they?
quis ipsa loquitor?
The question speaks for itself?
>> Question about a legal term
It better be legal. The mods frown on the use of illegal terms here.
Ipso loquitormeans the fact speaks for itself. Quismeans who. I have never heard the expression with “quis” added, and it appears to be redundant or superfluous to the ususal “ipso loquitor.”
I thought it was res ipsa loquitor, “the thing speaks for itself.” Has Law & Order been lying to me all these years?
Nope, Otto, that would be “James Arness ipsa loquitor”! 
I think Robb was going after quaestio ipsa loquitur; I also think Barbitu8 got whooshed!
Robb has little idea what he was going for, other than a play on res ipsa loquitur, which he was under the impression meant, ‘the thing speaks for itself’. Let this serve as a lesson to anyone who tries to play word games in languages he doesn’t understand. (I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader which language Robb is having trouble with.)
:smack: :o Yes, it’s * res ipsa loquitor *. Nonetheless, I think res is superfluous.
GODDAMN FUCKING HAMSTERS!!! I have no problems posting right before and right after I try and post this, which was my only meaningful post yesterday.
Fuck.
Anyway, here is my situation: A little less then 2 years ago I was aarrested and charged with a misdemeanor count of stalking down in Tallahassee Florida. Thanks to my lawyer, there was a plea agreement, (it was my first offense, in fact my first arrest) and from what I understood at thew time, I wasn;t found guilty or innocent, but rather recieved an adjudication.
Fine, whatever keeps me from spending a year in a Florida jail, I’ll take it.
But then I looked up the word adjudication at this web site: http://dictionary.law.com and it didn’t seem to fit my particular case in any way shape or form.
However, the phrase summary adjudication of issues did seem to somewhat fit my circumstances.
My question for the Legal Dopers out there would be this: How would adjudication fit into a misdemeanor stalking case? was my lawyer blowing smoke? From everything I know, I wasn’t found guilty or innocent and the charges certainly weren’t dropped.
Thanks very much for any answers you can come up with.
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The word is “loquitur”.
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That appears to be a special term used in Florida procedural law. You’d probably have to check the Florida law.
My you have gotten Deferred Adjudication?
My understanding is that if keep your nose clean for however long, the charges are dropped and you get a clean record.