de lunatico inquirendo

From Latin dē + lūnāticō + inquīrendō.

de lunatico inquirendo

1. (law) A legal document inquiring about the sanity of an individual.
   • 1851, Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable World, or St. James's Court Register and Advertiser, for Town and Country. Of the Belles Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume 31, page 185:

     But, unless the fact is withheld by the reporters out of delicacy, the ladies who have lectured on Bloomerism are not mad—not, at least, in the de lunatico inquirendo sense of the term.

• Often placed in italics, even in English expressions like "writ de lunatico inquirendo" or "the de lunatico inquirendo order".

• writ de lunatico inquirendo

• commission de lunatico inquirendo

• “de lunatico inquirendo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “de lunatico inquirendo” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023. (it's in the "legal dictionary")

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deː luːˈnaː.ti.koː in.kʷiːˈren.doː/, [d̪eː ɫ̪uːˈnäːt̪ɪkoː ɪŋkʷiːˈrɛn̪d̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de luˈna.ti.ko in.kwiˈren.do/, [d̪ɛː luˈnäːt̪iko iŋkwiˈrɛn̪d̪o]

dē lūnāticō inquīrendō

1. (law) A legal document inquiring about the sanity of an individual.