What are those words?


In the film, there were two words or phrases that I didn't get.

The first one even confused the judge, and he asked for clarification. What was that word?

The second word or phrase was said by the judge at the close of the trial. Maybe it's latin? Any ideas?

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The first was "jactitation," which Elliot Reid as prosecutor Tom Davenport uses to object to Tracy/Drummund's question to the high-school student, "Haven't murdered anybody since breakfast?" I forget how he defines it, but the dictionary definition is: "...a false boast or claim that tends to harm another person," and Davenport clarifies it as the "specious reference to the murder of persons unknown."

The judge adjourns the court with, "Sine die," Latin for "without day;" for courts or legislatures it basically means they're adjourning without specifying a date for a future meeting, as opposed to something like, "This court is adjourned until nine o'clock tomorrow morning."


Poe! You are...avenged!

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