| 单词 | spes | 
| 释义 | spesn. Law.   A hope or expectancy, esp. of some future benefit. Also in various Latin phrases (see quots. 1959). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > 			[noun]		 > object of hope hopea1382 expectancya1616 expectance1663 spes1815 white hope1911 1815    Decisions First & Second Divisions Court of Session (Faculty of Advocates)  28 Feb. 258  				There is a jus crediti conferred on the heir of a marriage-contract. It is not a mere spes successionis, but a jus crediti. 1945    All Eng. Law Rep. 22 Sept. 363  				Sine spe recuperandi, in the sense of abandoning all hope of his owner recovering the ship. 1952    All Eng. Law Rep. 14 Aug. 486  				The taxpayer's answer to that is, first of all, that this is not property at all but a mere spes or hope of getting something. 1959    Earl Jowitt  & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1664/2  				Spes recuperandi, the hope of recovery. If it is entertained by a person in danger of death, it makes a declaration by him inadmissible in evidence... Spes successionis, an expectation of succession, as distinct from a vested right. 1977    R. K. Johns  & R. R. Greenfield Dymond's Capital Transfer Tax ii. 40  				The fiction of Re Scott does not go so far as to require one to suppose that the beneficiary had more than an interest in expectancy..or indeed a mere spes, when he died. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). <  | 
	
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