‖ sine quo non Chiefly Sc. Law.
[f. as sine qua non, with the masc. quō (also pl. quibus) in place of the fem. quā.]
Indispensable; also absol., an indispensable person, spec. a curator, trustee, etc., appointed under this designation.
| 1693 Stair Institutes (ed. 2) iv. xx. §31 By a Quorum, or sine quibus non, in which case though the Sine quibus non accept not,..the Interdiction remains. 1765–8 Erskine Inst. Law Scot. i. vii. §15 The concurrence of the number fixed for the quorum, of which he who is sine quo non must be always one. 1819 Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. x. 331 Harper is a sine quo non. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 245 A curator sine quo non cannot act by himself. Ibid. 918 By the death or non-acceptance of the sine quo non the nomination fails. |