terrorem

The most recent term was in terrorem, which is defined as:

Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2008

The most recent term was in terrorem, which is defined as:

Legal Definitions 2008

The most recent term was in terrorem, which is defined as:

Define That Term # 292 2008

An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metam or argumentum in terrorem) is a logical fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for her or his idea by increasing fear and prejudice toward a competitor.

Cult of Apple - Part 1 2007

An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metam or argumentum in terrorem) is a logical fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for her or his idea by increasing fear and prejudice toward a competitor.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

-- The Attorney General's recent in terrorem comments about how the press might be prosecuted for publishing leaks;

Balkinization 2006

Hell is necessary in terrorem for peoples who inhabit cold regions and who in a hot Hell only look forward to an eternity of

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Merely picking up were President Nixon and Rehnquist left off the last time with "in terrorem, in terrorem." (see THE GERMAN DICTATORSHIP, THE ORIGINS, STRUCTURE, AND EFFECTS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM for a full account.)

Balkinization 2004

To exact satisfaction for debts of injury, which tends neither to reparation nor to the public good, but purely for revenge, though the law may allow it, in terrorem -- in order to strike terror, and for the hardness of men's hearts, yet savours not of a Christian spirit.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Now this was intended for warning to you, who have not only heard the judgments of God's mouth, as they did, but have likewise seen the judgments of his hand, by which you should be startled and awakened, for they were inflicted in terrorem, that others might hear and fear and do no more as they did, lest they should fare as they fared.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721