ESSENTIALIA

essentialia (e-sen-shee-ay-lee-[schwa]). [Law Latin “essentials”] Scots law. Terms or qualities essential to the existence of a particular right or contract. Cf. ACCIDENTALIA. “Essentialia. This term, applied to a contract, or right, or other subject of law, signifies those things which are essential to the very being of the contract or right, as such, and any […]