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OP There is a Latin phrase used in law that roughly translates into "you take the victim as he is." It pertains to situations such as when one person punches another in the face, not knowing that he has a brain aneurysm. The punch causes the rupture of the aneurysm, and the victim dies. The agressor pleads that it was an accident but is still charged with manslaughter on the grounds that he "takes the victim as he is." i.e. He is responsible for the death, and since he couldn't have known whether or not a single blow would kill the man, he should have refrained from hitting him in the first place.
Anyway, I can't think of the Latin legal term and I'm hoping someone here knows.
Also, what's the Latin medical term for a "sense of impending doom" such as experienced by a person in the throes of a heart atatck?
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