ratio decidendi

English

Etymology

Latin ratio (“reckoning, method, reasoning”) + decidendi, genitive singular of decidendus, gerund of decidere (“to settle”)

Noun

ratio decidendi (plural rationes decidendi)

(law) The legal principle or rationale on which a judicial decision is based.

Related terms

Translations

legal principle on which judicial decision is based

Finnish: oikeusohje

Greek: σκεπτικό (el) n (skeptikó)

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