Lat. A term of logic, sometimes applied to pleadings and toarguments on appeal, which signifies a mistake of the question, that is, the mistake ofone who, failing to discern the real question which he is to meet and answer, addresseshis allegations or arguments to a collateral matter or something beside the point. SeeCase upon the Statute for Distribution , Wythe (Va.) 309.Ignoratis terminis artis, ignoratur et ars. Where the terms of an art are unknown,the art itself is unknown also. Co. Litt. 2a.
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