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  • I shall have to go right back to Domesday and work up the centuries: _Modo per omnia reddit burgum tunc -- tunc -- tunc_!

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • (i) Six months are allowed the part/gaining the Caufe to enroll the Decree; if he delay it till after that time, he muft apply to the Court to enroll it, nunc fro tunc, which is granted of coorfe.

    An Historical Treatise of a Suit in Equity: In which is Attempted a Scientific Deduction of the ... Charles Barton 1796

  • Si autem aliqua soror infirmatur in tantum. quod eam inungi oporteat. tunc sacerdos ... oleum sacre unccionis deferat; et una sorore crucem portante. precedentibus duabus cum cereis. ad infirmariam uadat. et totus conuenteus eum processionaliter antecedat.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • And it ` s called non pro tunc; they ` re going back in time.

    CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2009 2009

  • Sit Trinitati sempiterna gloria, honor, potestas atque iubilatio, in unitate, cui manet imperium ex tunc et modo per æterna sæcula.

    Giovanni Vianini's bls 2009

  • Sit Trinitati sempiterna gloria, honor, potestas atque iubilatio, in unitate, cui manet imperium ex tunc et modo per æterna sæcula.

    Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

  • Even if it was technically a “coup,” which is arguable either way (as the above tutorial has proven), I think of all of the judicial orders granted *nunc pro tunc* even when, technically, it is a logical impossibility for the thing, whatever it may be, to be so (e.g., the response is filed late, is absent a motion for leave to file out of time, but the judge still accepts it as timely).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » No “Coup” in Honduras: 2009

  • De parentis protoplasti fraude Factor condolens, quando pomi noxialis morte morsu corruit, ipse lignum tunc notavit, damna ligni ut solveret.

    Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009

  • De parentis protoplasti fraude Factor condolens, quando pomi noxialis morte morsu corruit, ipse lignum tunc notavit, damna ligni ut solveret.

    Sing, my tongue bls 2009

  • He wrote, In Latin nunc pro tunc means ‘now for then.’

    Word Fugitives 2006

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