contemporanea expositio

== English == === Etymology === From Latin contemporanea expositio (“that which was said at the time”). Part of the expression contemporanea expositio est optima et fortissima, in lege ("contemporaneous explanation is best and strongest in law"). === Noun === contemporanea expositio (uncountable) (law) Legal opinions set forth at the time a document was written. 1848, Clericus M.A., Cantab, pseud, The Church of England pronounced heretical, by the promoters of a petition against the consecration of dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, page 44 This is the contemporanea expositio which is to prove that the doctrine of the sacraments is not delivered fully in the Articles ; being in fact about a totally different question ! (law) The doctrine that the legal opinions of the time a document was written should be used to interpret laws in preference to more modern formulations.