Mentes reae

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of mens rea form-of, plural

    "“The old conception of mens rea,” says Professor Sayer, “must be discarded, and in its place must be substituted the new conception of mentes reae.”"

Etymology

First attested in 1932; from the Latin mentēs (“minds”, the nominative plural form of mēns, “mind”) + reae (the feminine nominative plural form of reus, “guilty”).

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