ipsissima verba

phrase

phrase

Etymology From Latin ipsissima verba (“the very words”).

The actual words (spoken or transcribed).

"The record in the magistrate's court does not purport to reproduce the ipsissima verba of the witness; it does not give questions and answers in the exact words in which the question was put and the answer made; it, at best, gives no more than a summary...."1941, Engelbrecht v Nieuwoudt | CPD 54 at 55:

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