Ipso Facto

[Latin, By the fact itself; by the mere fact.]

ipso facto

(ip-soh-fact-toe) prep. Latin for "by the fact itself." An expression more popular with comedians imitating lawyers than with lawyers themselves. A simple example: "a blind person, ipso facto, is not entitled to a driver's license."

IPSO FACTO. By the fact itself.
2. This phrase is frequently employed to convey the idea that something which has been done contrary to law is void. For example, if a married man, during the life of his wife, of which he had knowledge, should marry another woman, the latter marriage would be void ipso facto; that is, on that fact being proved, the second marriage would be declared void ab initio.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Christine Alderson said: "We are delighted that Northstar and Northern Film & Media have seen the potential in Ipso Facto Films and our very exciting development slate.

Funding boost for North film-makers

The Ipso Facto syndicate and trainer Richard Fahey, who took the handicap hurdle with Joe Jo Star, whom they bought for just pounds 6,000 a month ago

Joe Jo Star wastes no time in repaying his new connections; MUSSELBURGH

Co-producer and founder of Ipso Facto Films Christine Alderson, said: "This is fantastic news for us and especially for the British film industry.

Big-screen success

There were reports that the Vatican had withdrawn its threat of excommunication as the result of the protest; however Nicaraguan Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo said that "it's not that I'm going to excommunicate them, but that (the canonical sentence of excommunication) falls upon them ipso facto."

Excommunication falls upon pro-abortionists. (News in Brief: Nicaragua)

ipso facto, plans or other drawings are relegated to the remaining one-eighth approx imate square, printed white-on-blue with so little information as to be merely iconographic.

All American: Innovation in American Architecture. (US Arises)

He also noted that the Member States with the best monitoring in place, are ipso facto those which record the highest incidences of this type of discrimination.

EQUALITY: RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA STILL WIDESPREAD IN EU, SAYS REPORT

So its opinions are presented as facts, and its opinion-givers as, ipso facto, authorities.

City ballet under fire. (Attitudes)

* Regarding the purchase of language labs as an ipso facto solution to ELT problems.

Why some in-country English Language Training Programs do not work: what every security assistance training officer should know. (Education and Training)

It almost fell at the first hurdle, with Newcastle-based production company Ipso Facto setting up its production office in Birmingham last December before it knew it had the money to complete the shoot.

Nasty Neighbours wins plenty of friends

174 requirements for deductibility, the activities, ipso facto, involved uncertainty.

Eligibility of internal-use software for research credit needs clarification

Because Freud's work embodies a concentrated gaze, it must ipso facto be superior to other kinds of effort: clinging to its very paint is a fibrous moral static that puts it beyond the reach of analysis.

Lucian Freud

But, ipso facto, they also engender the withering contempt for politics that corrodes the entire polity.