Meaning

3 senses
  1. From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force.

    As the Act was passed without the required quorum, the constitutional court struck down the Act and declared it to be void ab initio

    с возникнове́нияs vozniknovénija, от нача́лаot načála

  2. Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions.

  3. Taken with no prior qualifications.

More definitions
  • at the beginning

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
referring to the time from when a legal document comes into force:

Origin

From Latin ab (“from”) + initiō, ablative singular of initium (“beginning”).

From Latin ab (“from”) + initiō, ablative singular of initium (“beginning”).

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Synonyms

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