mentes reae
English
Etymology
First attested in 1932; from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mentēs (“minds”, the nominative plural form of mēns, “mind”) + reae (the feminine nominative plural form of reus, “guilty”).
Noun
- plural of mens rea
- 1932, Annual Survey of English Law (The London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) Department of Law), page 312
- “The old conception of mens rea,” says Professor Sayer, “must be discarded, and in its place must be substituted the new conception of mentes reae.”
- 1932, Annual Survey of English Law (The London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) Department of Law), page 312