DE TEMPS DONT MEMORIE NE COURT

de temps dont memorie ne court (d<<schwa>> tahn dawnmem-<<schwa>>-ree n<< schwa>>

koor). [Law French] From time whereof memory does not run; time out of human memory. • This

Law  French  phrasing  was  a  forerunner  of  Blackstone’s  classic  formulation:  “time  whereof  the

memory of man does not run to the contrary.” 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws

of England 460–61 (1765). See LEGAL MEMORY. [Blacks Law 8th]