in limineadv.

1614 Life & Death E. Geninges i. 14 And behold in limine, at the very first, I will not say a miracle, yet at least a wonder.

1646 T. Edwards 3rd Pt. Gangræna 284 The man stumbles in Limine, the first word of his Title page and Book being false Greek.

1706 J. Gordon Charitable Observ. 26 His own Declaration (in limine) that it was his project to make it some better understood, than generally hitherto it hath been.

1780 D. Hartley Let. 3 Jan. in B. Franklin Papers (1995) XXXI. 333 The humiliating demand alluded to in limine.

1804 Edinb. Rev. July 297 One objection, in limine, we feel ourselves called upon to make.

1865 A. Duvall Rep. Court of Appeals Kentucky 1 335 We cannot sustain the objection in limine to the revisability of the judgment.

1958 Southern Reporter (U.S.) 2nd Ser. 102 508/2 Such documentary evidence may be received in complementation of the pleadings to determine in limine whether plaintiff's cause of action is well founded.

2016 Portuguese Stud. 32 104 The next censor..admitted it was not easy to reject the film in limine.