coram nobis

English

Etymology

A shortening of the Latin quae coram nobis resident ("which [things] remain in our presence").

Noun

coram nobis (uncountable)

1. (law) A kind of legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error which did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.

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