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]