custos morum

custos morum (k[schwa]s-tahs mor-[schwa]m). [Law Latin] Custodian of morals (H.L.A. Hart believed that courts should not be seen as the custos morum). • This name was sometimes used in reference to the Court of King’s Bench.

“[H]e [Viscount Simonds] approved the assertion of Lord Mansfield two centuries before that the Court of King’s Bench was the custos morum of the people and had the superintendency of offences contra bonos mores.” Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals 88 (1968).

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资深译员姚坚，毕业于一所培养高级翻译以及跨文化事务专家的精英大学，专注翻译各种与私募资本有关的法律文件。