functus officio
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
(of a judge etc.) Having completed one's involvement in a matter (e.g. at the end of a court case), so that one no longer has jurisdiction to revisit it.
Example Sentences
- "A court loses jurisdiction, and is thus said to be functus officio, once the formal judgment has been entered […] After this point, the court is understood only to have the power to amend the judgment in very limited circumstances, such as where there is a statutory basis to do so, where necessary to correct an error in expressing its manifest intention, or where the matter has not been heard on its merits."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin