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De facto

adjective

Existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not. "A de facto state of war"

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... 2, 52. The respect shown for family relations may be seen also from the fact that a son could complain—de facto matris queri—if he believed that his mother had brought in supposititious offspring to defraud him of some of his inheritance; but he was strictly forbidden to bring her into court with a public and criminal action—Macer in Dig., 48, 2, 11: sed ream eam lege ...

— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker

... Montemar went about besieging, Gaeta, Messina, Syracuse; and making triumphal entries;—and that, on the 30th of June, 1735, Baby Carlos had himself fairly crowned at Palermo. [Fastes de Louis XV., i. 278.] 'King of the Two Sicilies' DE FACTO; in which eminent post he and his continue, not with ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. IX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

Words linked to "De facto" : de facto segregation, real, existent, de jure