Terms of Art

Authors

Kristin Collins, Boston UniversityFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2003

ISSN

1538-8123

Publisher

Yale Law School

Language

en-US

Abstract

ET UX

A Latin phrase gives voice to the legal rights and privileges of wives and emphasizes that they still play second fiddle to their husbands.

HENRY AND CLARIA WHITLEY LOST THEIR HOME in a tax sale in 1968. Seven years later, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court voided the sale because the notice sent to Henry and Claria about the pending sale referred to Claria with the Latin phrase et ux. Ux is short for uxor; et ux means "and wife." The government can't sell our homes out from under us without giving us "proper notice," and when it came to Claria, the Pennsylvania court thought that et ux wasn't proper enough. Due process, the court said, requires that parties to a lawsuit "be identified with clarity and without disguise."

Recommended Citation

Kristin Collins, Terms of Art , in Legal Affairs (2003).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2409