Also known as: in full
Written by attorneys · grounded in primary & secondary sources — see below
A Latin phrase directing that a text, provision, or document be reproduced in full without abbreviation or omission.
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After a supplier notified Infinity Bank that part of a delivery schedule had become impracticable, the bank responded by setting forth its remaining performance duties in extenso within the notice. The supplier then confirmed receipt and agreed to continue under the unchanged terms. The bank later relied on that complete statement to enforce the contract.
Island Manufacturing paid off a senior mortgage held by a third party and requested that the mortgage and note be assigned. The payor attached the entire original mortgage instrument in extenso to the assignment request. The junior lienholder later challenged priority, but the full reproduction established the subrogation rights without dispute.
During briefing in a nuclear licensing dispute, counsel reproduced the relevant statutory language governing judicial review in extenso. The court then applied that full text to determine whether the agency had exceeded its authority. The complete quotation eliminated any ambiguity about the scope of review.
In a challenge to a state tax on a federal instrumentality, counsel set forth the Supremacy Clause in extenso in the opening brief. The court examined the full language to decide whether the tax interfered with federal operations. The complete reproduction clarified the constitutional boundary.
A media defendant facing a libel suit reproduced the actual-malice standard in extenso in its motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff responded by arguing that the full text required proof of knowing falsity. The court used the complete quotation to evaluate the evidence.
In a challenge to a state contraceptive ban, the plaintiffs included the full text of the challenged statute in extenso in their complaint. The court examined that complete provision to determine whether it violated a protected liberty interest. The unabridged quotation framed the constitutional analysis.
It requires that the referenced text, statute, or contract provision be reproduced completely without any abbreviation, omission, or paraphrase.
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It is appropriate when the precise wording of the term is essential to the argument, such as when interpreting an ambiguous fee provision or determining whether a performance obligation survives partial impracticability.
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Yes. Reproducing the mortgage and note in full helps establish the payor's equitable right to step into the original mortgagee's position without creating ambiguity about the transferred interest.
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…the preceding August by the Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. 58 A. B. A. J. 380 (1972). We set forth the Act in full in the margin.[^maj-40] The Conference has appended an enlightening Prefatory Note.[^maj-41] VII Three reasons have been advanced to explain historically the enactment of criminal…