pro confesso
- A Latin legal term used to imply that a claim or assertion has been implicitly admitted or confessed
- When a party does not respond to a lawsuit, courts typically treat it as pro confesso.
- If you don't appear in court when summoned, your absence can be taken as pro confesso, meaning the claim against you can be assumed to be true.
- The defendant did not defend against the allegations, so the judge considered the case pro confesso.
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